USN
Patrol Wing 10
VP 101
Former Unit Assignment:
Dutch Navy
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Pilot Lt(jg) John Mott Robertson, O-077570, USNR, NAP (MIA / KIA) CA
Crew AMM1c John F. Long (NAP) (MIA / KIA)
Crew AMM1c Zygmut S. Lewall, 3110189 (USN) (MIA / KIA) MI
Crew AMM2c Van L. Shelton, 2716605 (USN) (MIA / KIA) AL
Crew RM1c Hans H. Poulsen, 3759022 (USN) (MIA / KIA) CA
Crew AOM2c John E. Simpson, 3282751 (USN) (MIA / KIA) MI
Crew RM2c Wayne S. Wilson, 3813212 (USN) (MIA / KIA) AZ
Crew Vernon Failer, 3364505 (USN) WA
Shot
Down February 24, 1942
Aircraft History
Built by Consolidated, no Bureau Number purchased by the Dutch Navy prior
to Lend-Lease. Exported to the Dutch Navy. Assigned Dutch Serial Number 28-5MNE Catalina, Y # uncertain. Used by US Navy, Patrol Wing 10, VP-101 during the first months of the war.
Mission History
Shot down
over Makassar
Straits, Netherlands East Indies, by Japanese fighters.
Unknown if any survived the crash or their fate.
Memorials
The entire crew was officially declared dead on December 4, 1945. All are memorialized on the tablets of the missing at Manila American Cemetery.
References
Thanks to Lou Dorny /
The Baltic Group Archive
for this information.
AMBC does not list John F. Long
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October 7, 2009
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