1st Fighter Group WW2 P-38 Missing In Action

Past and future searches for missing pilots -updated as searches are started and completed.

Jim Graham's MIA pilot memorial research - includes information on all 271 1st Fighter Group pilots missing during WW2, MACRs, crash locations, links

Carl Hoenshell Story of his search by Dick Kahler (Located 1999 in Dragoman, Croatia - Former Yugoslavia)
Hoenschel Funeral - story and photos by his niece, Liz Wilson

1st Flyer article on Hoenschel funeral
List of twenty-two missing pilots (including 14 from the 1st) from 10 June 1944 Ploesti raid

William Wisner Story by Jim Graham (Located in 2000 near Bolzano - Ritten, Italy)
William Wisner Story by Jim Graham (.pdf, 200kb)
Download Pictures for the Wisner Search story

Wisner Memorial & crash site - Photos from visitors in 2006

Book published by Billy's niece, Diana Dale, detailing the search

Seeking Picture....
Donald A. Kuske (Located in 1950 in Engersberg, Bavaria, Germany)

J. R. Dorris (Located 1944 and buried in the Florence Cemetery).

This search was to determine his origins so his name could go on a placque in his home town of Roseville, California). Lt Jesse Ray Dorris was a classmate of Mel Hill, Charlie McCann, Charlie Simpson, and Stub Hatch

Lt. Augustus Reese (KIA May 43) - A story told by the locomotive tender on Sardinia who was strafed by Lt. Reese

MIA-related Links
Italian (Romagna) Air Finders - Northern Italian Group specializing in finding and recovering WW2 aircraft crash sites (English and Italian Website)
WWII Memorial website
American Battle Monument Commission
American WWII Orphans Network (AWON)
Missing Air Crew Reports (MACRs) - Army Air Forces site that provides a look-up database of info on missing crews.