Engineer aboard B-29B Superfortress #44-83960 when the bomber struck a 3,820-foot mountain peak in a snowstorm, twelve miles south of Livermore, California while navigating towards landing to Fairfield-Suisun Army Airfield (now Travis Air Force Base).
The crew were ferrying the bomber from Hawaii to California.
All seven airmen aboard were killed. The others were:
1st Lt. Fred S Andes Jr., Pilot
2nd Lt. Francis G Weyant, Co-pilot
1st Lt. George W Cummings Jr., Navigator
Sgt. Dale A Anderson
Sgt. John E Elliott
PFC Donald M Miller
Engineer aboard B-29B Superfortress #44-83960 when the bomber struck a 3,820-foot mountain peak in a snowstorm, twelve miles south of Livermore, California while navigating towards landing to Fairfield-Suisun Army Airfield (now Travis Air Force Base).
The crew were ferrying the bomber from Hawaii to California.
All seven airmen aboard were killed. The others were:
1st Lt. Fred S Andes Jr., Pilot
2nd Lt. Francis G Weyant, Co-pilot
1st Lt. George W Cummings Jr., Navigator
Sgt. Dale A Anderson
Sgt. John E Elliott
PFC Donald M Miller
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