A San Francisco Examiner clipping from 30 December 1952 reports the loss of ten Navy flyers when their PBM Mariner patrol bomber crashed off Korea's east coast. Among the dead was Lt. (jg) Wayne Eugene Bancroft of Alameda, California, co-pilot of the aircraft, whose personal photograph collection forms the basis of this archive — a sobering reminder of the human cost behind naval aviation service during the Korean War. Project: 218240