Category

1940s missing person cases

page 1

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

French writer and aviator (1900–1944)

British soldier, diplomat and politician (1897–1977)

American band leader, arranger, and composer (1904–1944)

Raoul Wallenberg

Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and humanitarian (1912-1947)

pioneering English aviator (1903–1941)

Estonian politician and lawyer (1868–1941)

Herschel Grynszpan

Polish Jewish resistance fighter

Louis Zamperini

Italian-American middle distance runner and World War II veteran

first African American to be awarded the Navy Cross (1919–1943)

Constanze Manziarly

cook and dietitian to Adolf Hitler (1920–1945)

Francis Hong Yong-ho

Catholic bishop

Kurt von der Chevallerie

German General and Knight's Cross recipients (1891-1945)

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1914–1943)

Croatian soldier

German rower (1910–1943)

Pappy Boyington

United States Marine Corps aviator and Medal of Honor recipient (1912-1988)

Soviet aviator (1915–1942)

Estonian military personnel and politician (1872-1944)

United States Army Air Force Captain, Major League Baseball player, one of two MLB players killed in World War II (1917-1944)

Czechoslovak general (1906-1945)

German World War II flying ace (1912–1944)

Engelbert Endrass

German navy officer and world war II U-boat commander

Chinese sailor of the British Merchant Navy

Hermann Florstedt

German Nazi leader (1895-1945)

Sodder children disappearance

disappearance of five children in 1945

Josefa Llanes Escoda

Filipino heroine and suffragist (1898–1945)

Hungarian politician from Romania (1892-1946)

Luigi Barbesino

Italian footballer (1894-1941)

Abraham Gancwajch

Jewish Nazi collaborator (1902–1943)

Konstantin Rakutin

NKVD general (1902–1941)

Arthur Coningham

Royal Air Force World War II air marshal (1895-1948)

Russian Nazi collaborator (1896–1946)

Ernst-Heinrich Schmauser

German SS general (1890-1945)

Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

(1907-1969); 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

American actress

Oto Iskandar di Nata

Indonesian politician (1897–1945)

Japanese fighter pilot in World War II

Fransiskus Xaverius Soeprijadi, also known as Supriyadi or Soeprijadi (born 13 April 1923 – disappeared 14 February 1945, declared dead 9 August 1975), was an Indonesian national hero who rebelled against the occupying Japanese in 1945.

Italian murder victim (1920–1943)

Eduard Deisenhofer

SS officer (1909-1945)

Gertrude Tompkins Silver

WASP pilot (1911-1944)

Alexandru Robot

Romanian writer (1916-1941)

Aleksejs Anufrijevs

Latvian basketball player (1912-1945)

Fyodor Kostenko

Soviet lieutenant general (1896–1942)

Shimoyama incident

Erich Hilgenfeldt

German Nazi Party official (1897-1945)

1943 Balao-class submarine

Hildegard Neumann

Nazi, female guard in concentration camp

German, Austrian born, World War II fighter pilot (1912-1943)

1948 Airborne Transport DC-3 (DST) disappearance

early Bermuda Triangle incident

Eugeniusz Horbaczewski

Polish flying ace

kidnap of General Kreipe

1944 British kidnapping of a German general in Crete

Double agent for the British in World War II

German politician (1892-1945)

Kyrylo Studynskyi

Ukrainian politician (1868–1941)

recipient of the Victoria Cross (1911-1942)

Walter Stettner Ritter von Grabenhofen

German general; commander of 1st Mountain Division

BSAA Star Tiger disappearance

Disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle

Placido Rizzotto

Italian trade unionist (1914-1948)

Japanese author (1902-1957)