Pacific Wrecks - F-7B "Cherokee Strip" Serial Number 44-40198 On April 21, 1945 took off from McGuire Airfield on a test flight. An engine caught fire and the bomber crashed into the sea northwest of San Theresa on Mindoro.

April 21, 1945: Photographic reconnaissance F-7B "Cherokee Strip" 44-40198 suffers an engine fire on a test flight ditched northwest of San Teresa (Lalawigan) on southwest Mindoro.
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