A-35B Crash East of Tucson on March 8, 1944
Unable to resolve engine problems, Flight Officer Kenneth V.
Sartwell successfully bailed out of his A-35B approximately 30 miles east of
Tucson. Sartwell was on a ferry flight from El Paso to Phoenix.
Small scattered debris remains at the crash site today. (If you make it to
this crash site and you find a pair of glasses, give me a call.)
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Little debris remains of the A-35, but I did come across the gun sight. |
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A common practice by the Army Air Corps was to burn or bury debris although at the A-35 crash site, debris was "buried" in voids in the limestone. |
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