A B-26 attempting to land at Portland Airport in heavy fog crashed into a government trailer park for shipyard workers across from Redbank Village. Both crewmen aboard the plane were killed, along with 17 people on the ground. Another 20 were seriously injured.
The summer of 1944, with heavy wartime training and ferry traffic, saw more aircraft accidents in Maine than any other period. The second worst air disaster in Maine occurred on the same day! A B-17 crashed into Deer Mountain. near Rangely killing all 10 aboard.
Lest we forget- many airmen died in stateside training mishaps during WW II as well as in combat.
Saint John Pond. It is reported that at least two of them are still out there. One crashed near
Desolation Brook, one SE of Baker Lake in a bog, one near the canal out of 5th St. John
Lake and one somewhere SW of 4th St. John Pond.
2. T-33A involved in a mid-air collision with an F-102 near Flagstaff Lake in 1959.
3. F-106A in Caswell March 1966.
4. Unknown aircraft near Mud Pond in the Morkill section of Greenville. This may be an
unknown RCAF mail plane from 1938 or 1 of 2 RCAF Hurricane fighters that crashed in the
area in October 1944.
1. F-86E near Stockholm June 1951 (2 unsuccessful hikes, but site narrowed down)
2. F-86F in Levant March 1954
3. B-47 and KC-135A at Loring AFB November 1958
4. KC-135A north of Loring AFB May 1962
5. KC-135A north of Loring AFB January 1965 (Site located, planning survey visit soon)
6. B-52G north of Loring AFB September 1969
7. F-89J in Franklin June 1966
8. F-84F in Bucksport (Brewer Lake) August 1954
9. FB-111A near Eastman Brook, Ashland area in 1975
If you have any information about these crash sites, please e-mail me