Three members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force lost their lives yesterday morning when a Baffin bomber dived into the surf a few hundred yards from the shore near the mouth of the Waimakariri River. The picture shows an attempt to haul the wrecked machine ashore, and the life-boat Rescue HI cruising round the scene of the crash. Inset, Flight-Lieutenant A. D. Poulton, pilot of the machine
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1940, Page 10
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68Three members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force lost their lives yesterday morning when a Baffin bomber dived into the surf a few hundred yards from the shore near the mouth of the Waimakariri River. The picture shows an attempt to haul the wrecked machine ashore, and the life-boat Rescue HI cruising round the scene of the crash. Inset, Flight-Lieutenant A. D. Poulton, pilot of the machine Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1940, Page 10
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