CRASH IN YUGOSLAVIA
(British Official Wireless.) (Received July 24, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, July 23. An Allied transport plane bringing personnel to an airfield in Yugoslavia crashed on July 16 from 400 ft. above the airfield in the dark, and caught fire. The survivors included the Prime Minister's son, Major Randolph Churchill, who has been associated with the Yugoslav forces as a liaison officer, and Captain Evelyn Waugh, well known in peacetime as a novelist. They were both attached to the staff of General Maclean’s military mission to the Yugoslav National Liberation movement. Three Russian officers and Philip Jordan, the British war reporter. who sends this news, were also saved.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 255, 25 July 1944, Page 5
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