The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-26
B.29 DOWN ON ALASKA
 PENINSULA
Graft on Training Mission Runs Out of Gas Is
 Report Made

BULLETIN-Eimen Field
 Alaska. Feb. 26.--tR-Army,
 Navy and civilian planes
 searched hundreds of miles
 from this Anchorage base to-
 day without finding a trace of
 the Alaskan Air Command E.
 go missing with II men, the
 second such plane lost on train
 ing missions in legs than a
 week.
 The Army reported at noon
 tPST) today there was no sign
 of the missing ship and nc ra-
 dio contact since its last report
 early yesterday from near Bru-
 in Pass, on the mainland area
 of the Alaska peninsula north
 of Kodiak.
 Brig. Gen. Joseph II. Atkin-
 son, Commanding General di-
 rccted the widespread search.
 ELMENDORF FIELD, Alaska Feb 26.-tR-The second Alaskan Air Command BPS lost in less than a week on training missions was feared down today somewhere on or near the Alaska Peninsula, possibly in the vicinity of the Val ley of Ten Thousand Smokes.
 Brig. Gen. Joseph H. Atkinson, Commanding General, announced the last report from the missing ship placed it near Bruin Pass, on the mainland area of the peninsula north of Kodiak Island Tine num- Der of men aboard and their names were not disclosed
 The pass is also about 100 miles southwest Of Naknek. fishing com munity on the arm of Bristol Bay. near the famed Mount Katmai area.
 Gas supply Exhausted
 The planes gas supply should have been exhausted at about 820 am CPST) yeserday and it was declared missing as of that hour, General Atkinson said.
 Normally, plane on training mission carries approximately 12 men. The Superfortress from Ladd Field Fairbanks, which was fore ed down in northern Greenland last Friday had Il men aboard
 ImproNed flying weather was hoped for today to aid in the search of the rugged. little inhabit- ed area All Alaska air search agen- cies were alerted
 The Bruin Pass area is about 300 to $50 miles southwest of Elmen- dorf Field. the Alaskan Air Com mand headquarters located four miles from Anchorage.
 Searchers Encouraged
 The heroic rescue two days ago of the Ladd Field fliers in north- ern Greenland after their 46th long range reconnaissance squa- dron plane the "Kee Bird was blown off it's course last Friday and ran out of gas, encouraged leaders searching the latest miss ing plane Crew members Of the "Kee Bird are resting at Vest over Field, Mass, before returning to Alaska.
 The pilot who rescued the II men, Lt Robbie Joe Caynar, p, Okmulgee. Okla, and his five crew men were decorated at Washing ton, D. C., yesterday by Gen. Carl Spaatz, head Of the Army Air Forces Cavnar was given the dis tinguished flying cross and his erewmen each received the air medal Lieutenant Cavnar landed the rescue ship, the C-54, on a frozen surface without the aid of winter equipment and took off with the rescued crew safely, aided by rockets.
 The widely-x.ioSn vaiiey of Ten Thousand Smokes. volcanic re- zion, came into existence after the eruption of Mount Katmai in June, 1912. Thousands of steam jets, in- tensively hot. burst through the floor of the valley and the "explo- sion" of Mount Katmai was re- ported by scientists to be one of the largest ever known.
 Expeditions of the National Geo. graphic Society discovered many of the valleys wonders. and it was