Private First Class
574th Signal Air Warning Battalion
USASC

While flying on a C-47A-DK Dakota with a nose number of 385 in the 433rd Troop Carrier Group, 70th Troop Carrier Squadron, the plane was lost between Hollandia and Finschafen Airfield.
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Crew from the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron:
Pilot: 1st Lt. (posthumously promoted to Captain) Russell Andrew Morrison, (S/N 0-740880), De Leon, Texas.
Co-Pilot: 2nd Lt. Kenneth E. Wirth, (S/N 0-772242), Lincoln, Nebraska.
Aerial Engineer: TSgt. John F. Semmens, (S/N 12123113), Harrington Park, New Jersey.
Radio Operator: SSgt. Frank M. Staker, (S/N 39529923), Liberal, Kansas.

Passengers:
Lt. (jg) John Hartwell "Jack" Fezler, D-V (G), USNR (S/N 0-228365), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Oklahoma.
Aviation Chief Ordnanceman (AA) William Cecil Meadville, USNR (S/N 6048993), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Pennsylvania.
Colonel Oscar D. McNeely, (S/N O-7325), Headquarters, 25th Anti-aircraft Artillery Group, Oklahoma.
Captain (posthumously promoted to Major) Hal Sayre, III, (S/N O-355966), 821st Engineer Battalion, Aviation, Denver, Colorado.
Captain Boothe C. Haltom, (S/N O-366455), 146th Anti-aircraft Artillery Operations Detachment, Mississippi.
2nd Lt. (posthumously promoted to 1st Lt.) John R. Riisoe, (S/N O-2036215), Headquarters, Far East Air Force, Kansas.
2nd Lt. George D. Steel Jr., (S/N O2036224), Headquarters, Far East Air Service Command, Wyoming.
1st Lt. Harry E. Petersen, (S/N O1640812), 93rd Signal Battalion, Roosevelt, Minnesota.
1st Lt. William L. Pilgrim, (S/N O1289620), 151st Infantry Regiment, 38th Infantry Division, South Carolina.
1st Lt. Claude "Alvin" Reese, Jr., (S/N O-1288619), 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, Fort Worth, Texas.
Pfc. Paul E. Almon, (S/N 39197973), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Washington.
Pfc. Irvin H. Miller, (S/N 33489435), Battalion Headquarters Company, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Pennsylvania.
T/5 John L. Zajicek, S/N 37181290, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Mississippi.
Pvt. Francis J. Benson, (S/N 38363676), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Texas.
T/5 Alfred G. Daigneau, (S/N 15376994), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Ohio.
Pfc. William Hardaway Hatch, Jr. , (S/N 34466193), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Raleigh, North Carolina.

All U.S. Army crew and passengers were officially declared dead the day of the mission. The U.S. Navy passengers were officially declared dead on 02 October 1945, one year and one day after the plane went missing.