Summary: On August 9th, 1945, Lt. Russell Mathern and Captain Holbrook Snyder departed Hobbs, New Mexico on the fourth leg of their flight to Tucson, Arizona en route via Salflat, Green 5 Airway. At 9:34 pm, the pilot contacted the Cochise Radio Range and reported he was cruising at 9,500 feet en route to Tucson. There were heavy thunderstorms in the area and the mountains around Tucson were shrouded in dark clouds. The plane went missing and the following day the USAAF sent out search planes to scour the mountains. Two days later, the twin engine bomber's wreckage was found strewn on a slope high in the Rincon Mountains approximately 25 miles east of Davis-Monthan Field. As the rain at that time was so heavy, it was determined they had attempted to turn around and head east to another airport, and crashed roughly 10 minutes after their initial radio call to Cochise Radio Range.