January 15 – A Douglas C-54-DO Skymaster flying from the United States to the Casablanca Conference in French Morocco and operated by Transcontinental & Western Air on behalf of U.S. Army Air Forces Air Transport Command, disintegrates in mid-air for undetermined reasons and crashes in the jungle near Reynsdorp, Surinam, 40 kilometers east-northeast of Paramaribo, killing all 35 people aboard. [