USN
CASU-7
Pilot Ensign Matthew Richard McFarland
Passenger Lt. Jessie Raymond Battenfield
Crashed February 15, 1945
Mission History
Took off from the NAS Seattle,
on a training mission and failed to return. In fact, it crashed on Three Queens Mountain on the south slope.
Discovery
This aircraft was discovered in the Wenatchee National Forest
in the Cascade Mountains of Washington
State.
MIA Investigations
This site is the focus
of a JPAC MIA investigation
at the end of August 2004. A recovery team deployed in mid July
2005 to preform a complete recovery of the remains of the pilot,
along with the crash site of P-38E
41-2276 also in Washington
State.
This is the first Joint Field Activity mission in the continental United States
since 1996.
References
Thanks to Phillip Fazzini for crew list. Ted Darcy for Bu Nu.
SBD
MIA
