1940s missing person cases

French journalist (1909-1945)

Japanese flying ace (1908-1944)

Poet and writer (1894–1964)

Air Commodore Iswahyudi (born 15 July 1918; disappeared 14 December 1947) was an Indonesian airman and National Hero. On 14 December 1947, the plane he was flying with Halim Perdanakusuma crashed off the coast of Tanjung Hantu Hill, Perak, Malayan Union. Halim's body was later found, but Iswahyudi's was never recovered.

Soviet Tatar pontonier (1922–1944)

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1913–1944)

German flying ace (1911-1943)

Vietnamese spy

German World War II fighter pilot (1916–1943)

British flying ace (1915-1940)

Captain of the Polish Air Force, Squadron Leader of the Royal Air Force, fighter pilot (1911-1941)

German flying ace

American ice hockey player (1917–1984)

German World War II fighter pilot (1913–1941)

Reliance, World War II US Navy designation L-6

U.S. Army Air Forces general (1905–1943)

1949 disappearance of passenger aircraft

American Air Force general (1904-1945)

younger brother of Hans and Sophie Scholl

Polish chess player (1905–1941)

German physician

German fighter ace and Knight's Cross recipient (1918-1942)

German officer in the Heer branch of the Wehrmacht during World War II

Recipient of the Knight's Cross (1911-1942)

American boxer (1916–1944)

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient

Soviet chess player

Victim of unsolved 1946 Welsh child murder case

German artist (1888-1945)

Hero of the Soviet Union (1923–1943)

German flying ace (1918–1944)

German writer (1896–1942)

German SS officer