R.A.F. DEATHS
FIVE AT WEEK-END. CRASHES IN BRITAIN. THREE PLANES INVOLVED. i (United Press Association—B,v Electric T elegraph.—Copyright.) Received June 7, 9.20 a.m. LONDON, June 6. * Five members of tbe Royal Air Force were killed during the week-end. A bomber missing since June 4 in musty weather was found to have crushed in Westmoreland. Two were dead in the machine, which struck the lace of a precipice and dropped 50 feet on to a huge boulder, preventing it rolling hundreds of ieet down the mountainside. Another bomber crashed in a fog at Auchtengallic (Scotland, and caught fire, two being burned 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.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 159, 7 June 1937, Page 7
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