The Snapshots in Time Collection
Gallery: NEWSPAPER
Newspaper front pages and clippings saved in the Lt. Bancroft collection report the December 1952 crash of a Navy PBM Mariner patrol bomber of Squadron VP-47 in the Sea of Japan, which claimed ten crew members including Lt. (jg) Wayne Eugene Bancroft of Alameda. Survivors' first-person rescue accounts, a photograph of a patrol flying boat, and reference maps trace how the loss reached families through the press.
Newspaper Clipping: 'Fowler Man Is Among 10 Dead In Sea Crash' — PBM Patrol Bomber Crash Off Korea
Newspaper Clipping: 'Bomber Crash Victims Named' — Death of Lt. (jg) Wayne Eugene Bancroft, San Francisco Examiner, December 30, 1952
Newspaper Clipping: 'Rescuers Lasso Fresno Sailor After Crash' - Korean War Naval Patrol Bomber Ditching Account
Newspaper Clipping: Survivor's Account of an Aircraft Ditching at Sea - Lt. Bancroft Korean War Collection
Newspaper Clipping: Survivor Account of Aircraft Ditching and Rescue at Sea, Korean War Era (Bancroft Collection)
Google Maps Screenshot - Location Pin in the Sea of Japan, Near Korean Peninsula and Japan (Reference Image, Bancroft Collection)
Newspaper Headline Clipping: "Rescuers Lasso Fresno Sailor After Crash"
Chicago Herald American, December 29, 1952 — 'Navy Air Crash, 10 Lost' (PBM-5 Mariner, VP-47)
Chicago Herald-American Front Page: 'Navy Air Crash, 10 Lost' — Death of Lt. (jg) William E. Bancroft, December 29, 1952
Chicago Herald American Front Page, 'Navy Air Crash, 10 Lost' - December 29, 1952
Newspaper Clipping: Navy Patrol Bomber Crash Survivor's Letter, Korean War, Sea of Japan
Newspaper Clipping: Survivor Account of Military Aircraft Ditching at Sea, Lt. Bancroft Collection, Korean War Era
Chicago Herald-American Front Page, 'Navy Air Crash, 10 Lost,' December 29, 1952 (Korean War Era)
Chicago Herald American Front Page (Alternate Edition), 'Navy Air Crash, 10 Lost' - December 29, 1952
Chicago Herald American Front Page, 'Navy Air Crash, 10 Lost,' December 29, 1952 — Lt. (jg) William E. Bancroft, VP-47
Chicago Herald American Front Page, December 29, 1952 — 'Navy Air Crash, 10 Lost,' Reporting the Loss of Lt. (jg) William Eugene Bancroft, USNR
Chicago Herald-American Front Page, 'Navy Air Crash, 10 Lost' — December 29, 1952
Chicago Herald American Front Page, December 29, 1952 — 'Navy Air Crash, 10 Lost' (VP-47 Martin PBM-5 Loss, Sea of Japan)
Chicago Herald American Front Page, December 29, 1952: 'Navy Air Crash, 10 Lost' (Lt. J.G. William E. Bancroft, USNR)
Newspaper Clipping: Survivor's Account of Sea Rescue After Aircraft Ditching
Newspaper Clipping: Survivor Account of PBM Crash Rescue, 'Boat Is Used' / 'Escapes Injury' — Lt. Bancroft Korean War Collection
U.S. Navy Patrol Flying Boat (Martin PBM Mariner-type) in Banking Flight, Newspaper Wire Photo
Newspaper Clipping: "Chicago Area Naval Officer Killed in Plane Off Korea" (Ensign Wayne E. Bancroft)
'Bomber Crash Victims Named' — San Francisco Examiner Clipping Reporting the Death of Lt. (jg) Wayne Eugene Bancroft, 30 December 1952
