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The sinking of a German U-boat by the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) was claimed by one of their larger aircraft on 11 July 1942. The Grumman G-44 Widgeon, armed with two depth charges and crewed by Captain Johnny Haggins and Major Wynant Farr, was scrambled when another CAP patrol radioed that they had encountered an enemy submarine, but were returning to base due to low fuel.
Between July 1942 and April 1944, the Civil Air Patrol Southern Liaison Patrol was given the task of patrolling the border between Brownsville, Texas, and Douglas, Arizona. The Southern Liaison Patrol logged approximately 30,000 flight hours and patrolled roughly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of the land separating the United States and Mexico .
The two confirmed Civil Air Patrol U-boat kills reported in CAP Pamphlet 50-5 appear to be part of a summary of optimistic wartime reports. When reported numbers of planes shot down were compared to enemy records after the war, there simply were not enough enemy aircraft manufactured to support the cumulative number reportedly destroyed.
The Boeing B-17F-50-BO Flying Fortress, 42-5367, [26] of the 317th Bomb Squadron, 88th Bomb Group, [19] with ten aboard goes missing on flight from Walla Walla Army Air Base, Washington. Civil Air Patrol planes spot the wreckage on 14 February in the Blue Mountains, 17 miles E of Walla Walla, where the bomber apparently flew head-on into a ...
The scene of a Civil Air Patrol plane crash in Colorado that killed two people on Nov. 24, 2024. KUSA Pilot Susan Wolber and aerial photographer Jay Rhoten died in the plane crash.
The Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command was formed in the fall of 1942 to establish a single command to control antisubmarine warfare (ASW) activities of the Army Air Forces (AAF). It was formed from the resources of I Bomber Command , which had been carrying out the antisubmarine mission in the Atlantic and Caribbean since the Attack on ...
A Civil Air Patrol plane crashed during a training exercise in northern Colorado on Saturday, ... Colorado, on November 23, 2024, killed two people and injured one. (KMGH)
Two people are dead and another is injured after a Civil Air Patrol plane crashed Saturday in northern Colorado. The Civil Air Patrol, an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, said the aircraft -- a ...