AIR FORCE VICTIMS
THREE MORE CRASHES FIVE MEN, KILLED [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. June 7, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 6. Five members of the Royal Air Force were killed during the weekend. A bomber, missing since June 4, in misty weather, was found crashed in Westmoreland’, with two dead in the machine, which struck the face of a precipice and dropped fifty feet, a huge boulder preventing it rolling hundreds of feet down the mountainside.
Another bomber crashed in the fog at Auchtengallie (Scotland) and caught fire. Two were burnt to death. A third plane went into a spin, and struck a tree in Berkshire. Sergeant John Roe, of the Royal Air Force Training School, was killed. MRS. PUTNAM’S PROGRESS (Recd. June 7, Noon) NEW YORK, June 6. Mrs. Earhart Putnam has arrived at Natal.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 June 1937, Page 7
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