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Missing Air Crew Reports, WWII

In May 1943, the Army Air Forces recommended the adoption of a special form, the Missing Air Crew Report (MACR), devised to record relevant facts of the last known circumstances regarding missing air crews, providing a means of integrating current data with information obtained later from other sources in an effort to conclusively determine the fate of the missing personnel. MACRs are arranged by year and aircraft serial number, which is also known as the tail number.…More

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The National Archives

Missing Air Crew Reports (MACRs) of the U.S. Army Air Forces, 1942-1947. Original data from: The National Archives

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