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You might want to visit this page:

http://www.aeromuseum.org/aircraft_lockheed.html

You might have the wrong tail number.

Hello Franz.

This sounds like a great story idea. You may find additional help with technical questions in the Research and Experts forum located here.

Good luck, and welcome to AW!

Hi Franz - For weather try the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - pretty sure they're in Arlington, Virginia. I got weather data for a non fiction book I was working on (for 1978) from them a couple years ago. That would be just plain data but I think that would be a good place to start. On the Navy - if you have permission from his family to have access to your uncle's personal information, I think you should be able to get that from his personal records. I can't think of the organization right now that keeps all the military personnel records, but if you start via Google looking for "Military records" US and then select only sites that end in .gov you ought to be able to narrow down your search pretty fast. You might also want to try a Google search for your uncle's name - but be sure to put quotes around the first and last name ("Joe Uncle"). And - contact the air field where he was stationed. There may be some old stories about what happened or maybe even an old timer who retired and stayed in the area who would know what the speculation was at the time as to what happened. Good luck. Puma