US, Missing Air Crew Reports (MACRs), WWII, 1942-1947
Records: 819,382Complete: 99%
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.
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Sample
Elroy Joseph Prud'Homme's describes his plane being shot down
Sample
Report of a Plane Shot Down over Germany
Source Information
Fold3, US, Missing Air Crew Reports (MACRs), WWII, 1942-1947 ( : accessed September 30, 2023), database and images,
- Publication Title
- US, Missing Air Crew Reports (MACRs), WWII, 1942-1947
- Total Records
- 819,382Complete: 99%
- Content Source
The National Archives
- Publication Number
- M1380
- Record Group
- 92
- Published on Fold3
- 28 Nov 2007
- Last Updated
- 06 May 2011
- Description
- NARA M1380. Over 16,000 case files of Missing Air Crew Reports (MACRs) and related records of the US Army Air Forces, 1942-1947.