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AIR FORCE PLANES CRASH [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPY BIGHT.] LONDON, May 12. When, two;Air Force aeroplanes collided and crashed into Cobham Woods, Flying,Officer J. E. "Spanton was killed and" three others were injured. SOVIET AIRWOMAN’S DEATH LONDON, May 12. The Warsaw correspondent of “The Times” states that’ M. Anatoli Seroff, head of the Russian Air Inspectorate, was flying \witli "Pauline Osipova, who was‘given .a.captaincy in 1938 for ner long-distance and altitude records, when they crashed. Both were killed. Pauline Osipova, who held the Order of Lenin and was entitled to use the title Hero of the Soviet Union, will be given a State funeral and immured in the walls of the Kremlin.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 May 1939, Page 7
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