Missing Air Crew Reports

[Richard T Eger]

Discussions regarding these reports can be found in the "Archives in the USA" forum under the topic "AFHRSA & NARA Missing Air Crew Reports".

Regards,
Richard

[This message has been edited by Richard T Eger (edited 21 September 2000).]

[Richard T Eger]

A 29 Jan. 2001 notice on 12 O'Clock High! by Jim Corbett brought to my attention the services being offered by Craig Fuller to supply, for a fee, copies of MACR reports. Craig runs the Aviation Archeology Investigation & Research (AAIR) website at:

http://www.sonic.net/azfuller/

I wrote to Craig for details and he supplied me with the following information:

"Richard,

My web site is listed below. It should give you a good idea what I am doing, but in a nut shell, my primary interest is stateside training crashes. For my own research I have purchases most of the close to 2000 reels of microfilm on the USAAF and USN accident reports through 1955. To subsidize my hobby I have started to commercially sell individual accident reports. There is enough of an overlap with the information I have with combat losses that I have started to collect all of the MACRs and we are working on a comprehensive database. If you have an questions please feel free to ask.
Sincerely,

Craig Fuller
AAIR Aviation Archaeological Investigation & Research
Falcon Field Station Box 22049
Mesa, AZ 85277-2049
(480)-218-8198
aair@juno.com
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/azfuller "

Both of the above URL's get you to the site. Craig provides thumbnail examples of reports on his site, although I couldn't find an actual example of an MACR. Detailed ordering information is provided. Craig has done an excellent job in explaining just what he can provide and the cost.

Regards,
Richard

[Richard T Eger]

From within a thread on 12 O'Clock High!:

Rabe Anton
Classified USAAF Documents
Tue Aug 26 03:48:13 2003
205.188.208.101

Dénes,

I have not read the background links to yours or earlier postings here. After 15 years as an Air Force archivist and as a frequent researcher in the National Archives, I think I can safely say that no USAAF Personal Encounter Reports (PERs), Operational Summaries ("mission reports"),
Missing Aircrew Reports (MACRs), or Individual Deceased Personnel Files (IDPFs) remain classified today. Almost all of these materials, in fact, have been declassified since the 1960s. As always, one must ask, Why should such documents be classified in the year 2003? Normally, there are only three possible reasons for lingering classification of World War II documents, none of which seem to apply here: (1) documents contain information about nuclear weapons (Restricted Data, Formerly Restricted Data, Critical Nuclear Weapons Design Information (CNWDI) (2) documents contain human intelligence (HUMINT) (3) there simply has been a lack of resources to review the material and remove the classification markings.

RA