17 Killed in U.S. Army Transport Plane Crash
(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) Received Monday, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 16. A large Army transport plane crashed and was burned on an isolated peak in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts, killing seventeen men in one of the worst disasters in the history of United States military aviation. Three badly hurt men survived. Sergeant Robert Lee, of Columbus, Ohio, whose clothes were burned off his body, made two trips to the flaming wreckage dragging four men from the plane and then made his way through dense underbrush to the nearest roadway and directed the police to the scene of the wreck. Lee was later taken to hospital where he is given a 50-50 chance of recovery.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 196, 18 August 1942, Page 5
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