Mishaps of the 32nd Wolfhounds
Like many other squadrons the Wolfhounds lost aircraft too.
| Date | Aircraft | Serial | Remarks |
| 16-12-'41 | P-39 | 41-6919 | Unkown |
| 10-01-'42 | - | - | Lieutenant McKenna made a crash landing at Losey Field. |
| 11-01-'42 | P-39 | - | Lieutenant Doherty crashed into the sea. Pilot missing. |
| 18-01-'42 | P-39 | - | Lieutenant Frost taxiing accident. |
| 20-01-'42 | AT-6 | - | Lieutenant Frost parked aircraft on its back. |
| 02-02-'42 | P-36 | 38-0112 | Lieutenant Johnston damaged aircraft while taxiing. |
| 03-02-'42 | P-36 | 38-0113 | Wrecked on landing, no further details known. |
| 04-02-'42 | P-36 | 38-0141 | Lieutenant O´Neal damaged aircraft while landing. |
| 04-02-'42 | P-36 | 38-0123 | Lieutenant Hopper damaged aircraft during landing. |
| 11-02-'42 | P-40 | - | Lieutenant Gwehr damaged left wing and landinggear. |
| 24-02-'42 | P-39 | - | Lost wing in flight and crashed. |
| 25-02-'42 | P-39 | 41-6882 | Lieutenant Jeffries his landingear collapsed. |
| 10-03-'42 | AT-6 | 40-2135 | Lieutenant Wheeler stood aircraft on its nose. |
| 22-03-'42 | P-36 | 38-0122 | Lieutenant Bastion ground looped aircraft. |
| 29-04-'43 | P-40 | 42-0567 | Wrecked during cartwheeled landing on Losey Field. |
| 16-05-'43 | P-39 | 42-4265 | During landing at Hato Field landinggear collapsed. Pilot lieutenant Raymond L. Parker came out safe. |
| 05-06-'43 | P-39 | 41-6840 | Belly landing at Hato Field, pilot lieutenant Gerard F. Cavanagh came out safe. |
| 02-07-'43 | P-39 | - | Crashed at Hato field caused by rain. |
| 18-07-'43 | P-39 | - | Delpia Little killed when he went into water of end of Aruba. |
| 21-07-'43 | P-39 | 41-6862 | Crashed at Hato field, pilot Henri J. S. Carbonell was killed in this accident. |
| 12-08-'43 | P-39 | | Collision on ground at Hato field, caused by malfunction of brake. |
| 05-09-'43 | P-39 | - | Crashed on take off from Hato field, pilot inhurt. |
| 21-12-'43 | P-39 | 42-18861 | Crashed at sea (5 miles west of Nortcape of Aruba), pilot 2nd lieutenant Ellsworth Broom killed. |
| 16-03-'44 | P-38 | - | Francis P. Hanlon shot down flying Europe. |
| 07-04-'44 | P-39 | 42-20912 | Pilot error by 2nd lieutenant Louis A. Sosin. |
| 09-10-'44 | P-39 | 42-19647
44-3524 | Midair collision of 2nd lieutenant Jack Peterson and 1st lieutenant Ruud R. Brill at France Field. |
| 16-10-'44 | P-39 | 44-3539
44-3525 | Midair collision of major Melville H. Boulter and captain Robert B. Koster at Franch Field. |
| 27-12-'44 | P-39 | 42-19657 | Flying accident of 2nd lieutenant Hartwell T. Bressler. |
| 27-12-'44 | P-39 | 42-19659 | Flying accident of 1st lieutenant David A. Dozier. |
| 28-12-'44 | P-39 | 42-19647
44-3525 | Pilots lieutenant Edward Dozier and lieutenant Hartwell T. Bressler lost contact with rest of mission in the vicinity of Madden Dam. Both pilots reported missing. |
| 31-12-'44 | P-39 | - | Lieutenant Edward Doran get engine problem and was forced to land at sea. Pilot was resqued by fishermen. |
| 30-03-'45 | P-39 | 44-3860 | Lieutenant George A. McClung lost contact with rest of flight and was reported missing. |
| 21-04-'45 | C-45 | - | Crashed while searching a missing aircraft and pilot of the 51st Fighter Squadron. Crew Maj. Charles G. Edwards (Commanding Officer), Lt. Charles Sweeney, Sgt. Roy Rice and Cpl. Harry Petree got killed. |
| 12-10-'45 | P-38 | - | A formation was returning home from a mission and was cruising at 14,000 feet, when the left tailboom of Lt. Benjamin W. Ryan's P-38 struck he right wing of Capt. William L. Davidson's Lightning. Capt. Davidson's aircraft was slightly damaged, enabling him to bring his ship back to the field. Ryan's plane was left without tail controls, forcing him to bail out, but he was rescued at sea shortly after, and returned to base uninjured an hour later. |
| 06-02-'46 | P-38 | - | Pilot Herbert Grunska killed why ettempting landing on Howard Field. |
| xx-xx-'46 | P-47 | - | William T. Fairman crashed at Hato Field (plane is question mark). |
| xx-xx-'xx | AT-6 | - | Lieutenant Burns and lieutenant Blackburn killed in a spun. |
| xx-xx-'xx | P-38 | - | Arthur e. Gaultney (was in 515 FS at the time) overshut runway and got killed. |
| xx-xx-'xx | P-39 | 42-20912 | Mid air collision of Captain Ramsey and Louis Sosin. Both pilots were killed. |
| xx-xx-'xx | P-47 | - | Pilot David F. Schmidt crashed at Howard Field. |
| xx-xx-'xx | P-47 | - | Pilot Cecil Wells shot down over Europe. |
| 20-11-'56 | F-100 | 54-1965 | Attempting to land a malfunctioning fighter first lieutenant David. R. Scott crashed his aircraft at Soesterberg AB and stayed unhurt. |
| 28-05-'57 | F-100 | 54-1923 | Returning from a cross-country flight the plane crashed, at the grounds of sychiatric institute William Arntszhoeve in the town of Den Dolder. during to attempt to land at Soesterberg AB. The pilot, first lieutenant Alan. N. Rea, was killed in the accident. |
| 23-07-'57 | F-100 | 54-2029 | Crashed while attempting to land at Soesterberg AB. The pilot, first lieutenant Eugene. E. Malish, was unhurt in the accident. |
| 09-09-'57 | F-100 | 54-1952 | Aborting during take-off at Wheelus AB, Libia, the fighter did not engage the runway barrier and crashed at the end of the runway. The pilot, first lieutenant, Jack V. Cebehabersky, was unhurt. |
| 15-08-'57 | F-100 | 54-1939 | Similar to the previous aircraft accident, first lieutenant David H. Clegg aborted during take-off and missed the barrier reseluting in a crash at the end of runway. The pilot was unhurt in the accident. |
| 26-03-'58 | T-33 | 51-8974 | Crashed on a night training flight while the squadron was deployed to Nouasseur AB, Morocco, for weapons training. The trainee pilot, second lieutenant Richard E. Bolstad bailed out and survived the crash. The instructor pilot, captain Glen L. Wallin was killed attempting to land the malfunctioning aircraft at Nouasseur Air Base. |
| 27-09-'58 | T-33 | 52-9864 | On take- off, the engine "flamed out" when it was about 75-100 feet in the air. It bellied in just short of the end of the runway. The left wing tore off when it struck the right barrier upright. The plane spun 90 degrees to the left, the stub of the left wing dug in and flipped the aircraft on its back. The aircraft caught fire. The instructor pilot, first lieutenant Donald F. Smith and trainee, first lieutenant David H. Clegg, only recieved minor injuries.
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| 03-12-'58 | F-100 | 54-1861
54-1865 | Two aircraft on its way to Wheelus AB, Libya, for a weapons training ran out of fuel and crashed short of their destination. The pilots, captain Donald H. Brandy and first lieutenant Harry E. Higgins, safely bailed out of their jets. |
| 26-10-'59 | F-100 | 54-1884 | First lieutenant Jack V. Cebe-Habersky its aircraft right wing was dropping during landing. The aircraft veered off to the right on its drop tank and left the runway abd came to rest heading in a grass area beside runway 31. |
| 12-09-'60 | F-102 | 54-1365 | Was used in the transition fase at Wheelus AB. It was damaged on a hard landing when the instructor-pilot (first lieutenant Richard Vaugh Jamieson) misjudged the aircraft's position over the runway while supervising a pilot (first lieutenant Earl Hugh Richmond) during his initial ride. |
| 13-04-'61 | F-102 | 56-1044 | During night intercepts over the North Sea (coast of province Zeeland and near the town of Zonnemaire) the fighter sufferered a fire control malfunction and put a wingtip through the cockpit of a RNLAF Hawker Hunter. A small screw came loose and caused a range potentiometer to stop showing decreasing range and the pilot thought he wasn't still closing on his target because his range circle on his scope wasn't decreasing in size. The fighter returned to base without realizing he had collided with another aircraft even though he was missing a couple of feet off one wing tip. Unfortunately the Dutch pilot (First Lieutenant van de Gaag) was killed in the collision. The Dutch pilot and his plane, in spite of long search operation, were never found. The Hawker Hunter (N-260) was part of the 326 squadron which was stationed at Soesterberg AB. An additional footnote: When the F-102 landed it was noted that one ejection seat pin was installed. If necessary, the pilot would not have been able to eject. |
| 25-09-'61 | F-102 | 56-1021 | Aircraft crashed during a routine training flight near Zevenhoven, the Netherlands. The pilot, first lieutenant James R. Martin bailed out and landed in a small lake He had to inflate his life raft and paddle to shore. The aircraft completely buried itself in mud. After several days the major parts of the aircraft where recovered and returned to the air base. The aircraft experienced a major hydraulic failure causing complete loss of aircraft control. Lt. Martin ejected at a very high speed, but was not seriously injured. |
| 12-12-'62 | F-102 | 56-0973 | Fighter malfunctioned during a night training mission and crashed two miles from Soesterberg AB. First lieutenant Clement R. Henderson succesfully bailed out. |
| 19-10-'65 | F-102 | 56-1122 | During take off at Ramstein AB Lieutenant Colonel Marvin O. Weber (squadron's standardization and evaluation officer) its aircraft skidded due ice forming of the runway. The aircraft pivoted to the left resulting in collapse of the left main landing gear. |
| 09-08-'66 | F-102 | 56-1029 | Aircraft caught fire during engine start in the alert facility (ZULU) at the base. The cause of the fire was discovered to be the failure of the air starter drive gear, which broke in two pieces and came through the side of the aircraft. Alert building and aircraft lost to flames. Five airmen were awarded the Airman's medal for saving the pilots and the other D-Dagger from the fire. |
| 14-11-'69 | F-4 | 68-0422 | Flying a cross-country navigatonal training flight, the aircraft crashed short of the runway at Aviano AB, Italy. Captain John Rabeni, the pilot, and major, Donald Bowie, the weapons system officer, successfully ejected (less then 30 meters from the ground) from the fighter. Both suffered minor back injuries. |
| 21-06-'71 | F-4 | 68-0433 | While flying a training mission the fighter crashed at Lienden, the Netherlands. Both the pilot, captain Ted G. Sweeting, and weopans system officer, captain David B. Rice, were killed in the accident. |
| 15-09-'75 | F-4 | 69-0266 | Shortly after take-off from Wittmundhaven AB, Germany, the aircraft crashed into an empty field. The pilot, first lieutenant Thomas E. Lorincz, and weapons systems officer, captain Robert W. Mandernack, safely ejected, but were hospitalized. |
| 29-08-'77 | F-4 | 74-1051 | While flying a low-level intercept, the aircraft crashed in the North Sea near the Dutch island of Terschelling. Both the pilot, first lieutenant Mickey Johnston, and weapons systems officer, first lieutenant Patrick H. Pondrom, were killed. They were performing a "cap anchor" (Combat Air Patrol) and performed a High G turn, Mickey Lost control and the bird flammed out, too low for an air start, and did a 180 straight down. Rumour has it that the F-4 crashed during the interception of a disc shaped UFO, first seen at the base. But based upon the flight profile, intercept messages, and what some people told from "debriefing" it was a "normal" crash. Even one more thing confirmed it, there was a Tu-160 "Blackjack" in the area, traversing its way to Cuba. |
| 15-08-'89 | F-15 | 79-0023 | A few minutes after the aircraft took off for a scramble it lost its canopy. Aircraft returned to Soesterberg AB and landed safely. The pilot stayed unharmed. |
| 25-04-'90 | F-15 | 81-0049 | Suffered engine fire while flying in a three ship formation during exercise Elder Forest and subsequently lost all hydraulic power. Pilot major George D. Hulsey ejected safely and was picked up by an oil-rig supply vessel. Aircraft crashed into the North Se, 9 miles off Spurn Point Humberside, United Kingdom. |
