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KILLED IN VICHV PLANE CRASH HUNTZIGER RETURNING FROM MISSION. TOUR OF NORTH AFRICA. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) VICHY, November 12. A plane in which General Huntziger and seven others were flying to France from Algiers crashed fifty miles from Nimes. All the occupants were burned to death.' The plane lost its way in thick log. The last message from the plane was received shortly before one p.m. The wreck was found after dark. General Huntziger was returning from a 10,000-mile tour of inspection in Ihe French possessions in North Africa and was due to report to Marshal Petain today. He was accompanied by M. Jean La Busquiere and Captain de Royerc, who were respectively his chief secretary and orderly officer, and also by,, his valet and the military writers'of Vichy newspapers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1941, Page 6
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