AIR CRASH IN CANADA
TWENTY-ONE MEN KILLED
(Rec. 7.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, Sept. 15. Twenty-one men were killed when a Koya! Canadian Air Force Dakota transport crashed and burned when landing on an aerodrome at Estevan. Saskatchewan. AU were members ox the Royal Canadian Air Force. It is reported from New York that a Mitchell bomber carrying MajorGeneral Paul Wurtsmith, temporarily commander of the Bth Air Force, and other officers, which has been missing since September 13 was found on a mountaintop near Greenville, South Carolina, where it crashed and burned.
A forest ranger reported that General Wurtsmith and four other occupants of the aeroplane were killed when the crash occurred during a fog.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24982, 17 September 1946, Page 7
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