TFC P-40B 41-13297 crashed 24th Jan 1942

[paulmcmillan]

Does anyone know the pilot killed when this aircraft crashed 24th Jan 1942?

Thanks
Paul

[paulmcmillan]

To add some detail...The airplane came down on the Koolau Range, Oahu in Hawaii

A P-40E '65-000' was lost on this date on the Koolau Range killing the Pilot 1st Lt Kenneth Wayne Sprankle # 0-022823 of Lafayette, Indiana

See:
http://www.aviationarchaeology.org/s...ly/Jan1942.htm

And I wondered if this was a mis-ident

[hang the expense]

The pilot Lt sprankle was performing a loop over the mountain range at 10,000 ft.above sea level. At the top of the loop it is said he washed out of the manuever at at 3500 ft impacted the side of the mountain range. The body was recovered at the time and the A/C was recovered on two dates 88 and 91.

[paulmcmillan]

Thanks...

I found out from another site, that Sprankle was named in Flypast .. But their checking of dates was of the normal standard and they said Feb 42!!

Paul