CZECHS FREE TWO PILOTS
(Rec. 7 p.m.) PRAGUE, June 30. The Czech Government announced vesterdav that two United States Air Force pilots, who had been held since they crossed the frontier by mistake three weeks ago, had been released and their planes freed. The two jet pilots—a Norwegian and an American—crash-landed in Czechoslovakia while on a training flight. The American pilot will be handed over to the American occupation authorities at the Czech-German frontier. The Norwegian pilot will be sent directly to Norwav. He said he did not wish to return to the United States Air Force, with which he was trainin’.
The two planes will be transported to the American zone of Germany at the expense of the American Government.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26462, 2 July 1951, Page 7
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