BIG AIR FORCE PLANE MISSING IN MANEUVERS.

Fairbanks, Alaska (AP) -- A big Air Force plane, one of 40 which flew to Alaska last week for "Exercise Warmwind" Arctic maneuvers, disappeared early Friday with 19 men aboard.
Flying from Elmendorf Field at Anchorage on Cook Inlet to the interior, the C-119 "Flying Packet" gave a last radio report over Summit, Alaska, on the Alaska Railroad. The weather was fair with good visibility and the plane was cleared to fly on to Nenana on a planned hop to Big Delta, 100 miles south of here.
Five Air Force men from the 435th Troop Carrier group of the Miami, Fla., international airport and 14 Army men "on temporary duty in Alaska in connection with Exercise Warmwind" were aboard.
Search efforts got under way early in the day and 19 planes were in the air, under Maj. JOE WALKER, commanding officer of Flight D of the 10th Rescue Squadron at Ladd Field.
By late afternoon all the balleys along the missing aircraft's planned route had been searched from the air and the planes were concentrating in the vicinity of Mount Deborah, 10th Rescue Squadron headquarters said. The entire area is now covered with snow.
The names of the men aboard the plane were withheld.

Walla Walla Union Bulletin Washington 1952-11-08

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HUNTERS SEEK PLANE, 19 MEN.

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) -- Aerial searchers hoped to be able to determine Tuesday whether wreckage signted on Mt. Silverthorne Monday is from a C-119 troop carrier that vanished Friday with 19 men aboard.
The Air Force reported only a small bit of wreckage was sighted from a 10th Rescue Squadron C-54 search plane.
Planes from Ladd Air Force Base were turned back by turbulent air and overcast as they tried to fly to the southeast for a closer study of the wreckage. The mountain is about 135 miles north of Anchorage and east of Mt. McKinley, the tallest North American peak.
Mt. Silverthorne is 13,170-foot high. The wreckage was sighted at about the 12,000-foot level by searchers on a C-54 piloted by Capt. WILLIAM F. RITTER from the Elmendorf Air Force Base.

Walla Walla Union Bulletin Washington 1952-11-11
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