Farmer Risks Life To Rescue Dead Airman
LONDON, Mar. 8. Running through a shower of wreckage from a disintegrating plane, a Yorkshire farmer dragged a trapped airman clear and ripped oil his burning clothes but the pilot was dead. The only other occupant of an R.A.F. Mosquito baled out and landed safely in a field. The plane’s petrol tank crashed (through the porch of a school where only a few minutes earlier two boys and two girls had been sitting for an examination. The schoolmaster’s wife and daughter were slightly injured. |)t!|[!ll[lll[lli:i!l[lllill!illllllllillil!llli;![lllllll[lllllll!i:iill!l[|||[l!l!ilillll!lllllll!ll!llllNI!llliNlllll!rMrril
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22891, 10 March 1949, Page 5
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