Missing Air Crew Report

The AFPPA-14 is the basic document in each case file, but not all case files contain this document. For military personnel, the information covers full name, grade, army service numbers, organizations, and home stations. For civilians, the information covers full names, positions, and employers. For the aircraft, it covers the time it was lost. Also required was a statement that the emergency addressee of each occupant had been notified, or that the house station commander had been requested to make such notification. Not all of the reports contain all of this information.

Individual Casualty Questionnaire

The AFPPA-11 was completed by a witness to the loss of a single crew member. It contains the name, rank, serial number, and crew position of the casualty, the number, date, and destination of the mission, the name of the respondent. The respondent was not a member of the flight crew.

Casualty Questionnaire

The AFPPA-12 was completed by a member of the crew who had survived the mishap and responded to questions about the flight, and all remaining members of the crew.

Documents relating to the loss

Many files contain a “statement” or brief narrative account of the occurrence, signed by members of the crew or an eyewitness to the crash. Occasionally, the files may include aerial photographs of the crash site and of the aircraft, annotated maps of the flight pattern, and the location of the crash. Files relating to aircraft losses over German-occupied Europe often include German documents captured at the end of the war or English translations of these documents. These records typically indicate air crew survivors, the prisoner-of-war camp or place of incarceration. The burial place of dead airmen is sometimes indicated.

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