AIR DISASTER IN U.S.A.
ARMY PLANE CRASHES
NEW YORK, August 16,
A large army transport plane crashed and was burnt on an isolated peak in the Berkshire. Mountains, Massachusetts, killing 17 men. This is one of the worst disasters in the history of United States military aviation.
Three badly hurt men survived. Sergeant Robert Lee, of Columbus, Ohio, whose clothes were burnt off his body, made two trips to the flaming wreckage, dragging four men from the plane, and then made his way through dense underbrush to the nearest roadway and directed police to the scene of the wreck. Lee was later taken to hospital, where he was given only a fiftyfifty chance of recovery.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 42, 18 August 1942, Page 4
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