U.S. FIGHTERS & SOVIET TRANSPORT INCIDENT
(10.45 a.m.) s BERLIN, June 3. 'fine Russian-licensed. German News Agency announced today that the Russians had lodged a protest with the American authorities that American fighter planes accompanied a Russian transport plane on a Berlin to Zurich flight on April 28 over the Russian zone "in violation of all existing regulations.” The Russians said only the discipline of the Russian pilot prevented an accident. Major-General Hall, chief of the military Government’s armed forces division, asserted today that radar records proved that the Russian allegation was completely false and countercharged that the Russian pilot was guilty of dangerous flying in that he turned into an American fighter but that an accident was averted.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22655, 4 June 1948, Page 5
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