KILLED IN CRASH
NOTED SOVIET FLYERS
MLLE. OSIPOVA TO HAVE
STATE FUNERAL
(Received May 13, 12.30 p.m.)
LONDON, May 12.
The Warsaw correspondent of "The Times" says that M. Anatoli Seroff, head of the Russian Air Inspectorate, was flying with Mile. Pauline Osipova, who was given a captaincy in 1938 for her long-distance and altitude records, when they crashed. Both were killed. Mile. Osipova, who held the Order of Lenin and was entitled a "Hero of the Soviet Union," will be given a State funeral and immured in the walls of the Kremlin.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 111, 13 May 1939, Page 8
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