AIRMAN KILLED
TWO PLANES COLLIDE
When two fighter aircraft Collided near a North Island air station on Friday afternoon during acrobatic training, Sergeant Gordon Leonard Barnard lost his life. His father is Mr. L. C. Barnard, Eltham. The pilot of the other machine, Pilot Officer John Barry Riley, Masterton, made a descent by parachute, escaping with a dislocated shoulder. Barnard's parachute was not used.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 131, 5 June 1944, Page 3
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64AIRMAN KILLED Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 131, 5 June 1944, Page 3
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