Lost gold shipment West Africa 1946

Well done BA

What I would like to find out is who the 11 civilian passengers were but I will have a look at the links that you have posted I just have an errant to do first. I am putting a list together that I will post at some latter stage my family is leaving tomorrow morning so I will have more time.

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I've been trying unsuccessfully to send some attachments from the MACR.   I think the network I'm on may have some firewalls that are preventing me from sending the attachments.

So.....I'll just go over who the MACR lists as having been on board.  What follows is from a document in the file dated 13 December 1945.   (There are some variations of spelling in some of the other documents, but this seems to be the most consistent and official).   The numbers after the names appear to be the individuals service numbers.  Note: there are 15 military and 2 civilians.

1st Lt Oliver K Morton 061566 Air Corps
F/O William K Jobe T 6173 Air Corps
1st Lt Bernard E Fielder 0931807 Air Corps
1st Lt Harrison E Squires 0707128
2nd Lt David E O'Calligan 02061170 Air Corps
Cpl Marlan J Reed 37538187 Air Corps
Cpl Samuel Mehrman 42000743 Air Corps
Cpl Samuel Klink 32912120 Air Corps
Sgt Seymour J Stanger 32866364 Air Corps
2nd Lt Walter H Nelson 0876335 Air Corps
Major Edward A Ciobban 0503275 FD
Capt William Moncrieff 0665218 Air Corps
1st Lt Henry Elvik 0854622 Air Corps
Capt John M Weaver 01280967 branch unknown
Cpl Milton S Tyler 37709612 branch unknown

Mr Homer C White, Courier Div, State Department
Mr T Katzenstein, affiliation unknown, passport number 91209 revenue ticket number X 395867 (other documents list his first name as Theodore).

The last two pages of the file include the next kin (with addresses) for the 15 military personnel.

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While we're waiting for the answer regarding where to post the doc's, here is some more information on some of our passengers:
 Captain Weaver and Corporal Tyler (listed as branch unknown) were members of headquarters North African Division ATC (Air Transport Command)---1250-AAF base unit......basically they were involved in ferrying planes from one location to another.

Capt Moncreiff and 1st Leiutenant Elvik were headed to Johannesbur South Africa so they could mary a couple of sisters, Joan and Pat Roelofsz in Booysens, Johannesburg.

Mr H. Brasser, a long time resident of Liberia, may play a role in our investigation....He was advising Lt Nelson's father on steps the government should take in the search.   He also claims to have written personally to the President of Liberia.   It is possible that he may have search for the plane AFTER the official searches were over.

(BTW, the MACR refers to Casey Jones Project aircraft.   Operation Casey Jones was the aerial mapping of Europe and Africa by specially outfitted surplus bombers

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This is becoming such a cool war time DC-3 type treasure hunt and I'm amazed at what you and others have found, Xavier.

Down at the attachments below, it says 1M is the maximum size on here in the posts. What format are they in right now? Sue

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Oh thanks, GD. Awhile ago, I suggested the downloads area, but I've never used it so I wasn't sure and deleted the post. 

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