DEATH IN ACTION
AMERICAN ACE AIRMAN. DESTROYER OF 25 ENEMY PLANES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, February 7. Lieutenant Robert Hanson the American air ace. was killed near Rabaul on Thursday, according to a fellow filot, who saw his plane strike the water with the petrol tank burning. Nothing was left of the plane but debris. Lieutenant Hansen, a United States Marine fighter pilot, with a record of shooting down 25 Japanese planes in the South Pacific needed only one more victory, to equal Rickenbacker’s record of the first World War. He was also reported missing three months ago but later showed up.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1944, Page 3
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