List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1945–1949)
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This is a list of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred. Not all of the aircraft were in operation at the time. For more comprehensive lists, see the Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives, the Air Safety Network or the Dutch Scramble Stoffer & Blik Database. Combat losses are not included, except for a few singular cases.
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Information on aircraft are the type and, if available, the serial number of the operator; the constructor's number, also known as the manufacturer's serial number (c/n); exterior codes; nicknames (if any); flight call sign, and operating units.
January–March 1945
1 January
A Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9 Black 12 of 10./JG. 54, flown by Leutnant Theo Nibel of the Grimbergen force, was downed during Unternehmen Bodenplatte when it struck a partridge. The bird made a hole in the plane's radiator, forcing a gear-up landing near Brussels.
A Lockheed P-38G-10-LO Lightning, 42-13400, c/n 222-7834, crash-landed on Attu Island in the Aleutians, 2,000 miles (3,200 km) west of Anchorage, Alaska, on a training mission; the pilot, 2nd Lt. Robert Nesmith, was uninjured. The plane's propellers were torn off, its horizontal stabilizer was broken, and its left nacelle was buckled.
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