Wrecked Plane Seen On Alaskan Mountain
Recd. 11 p.m. Nome (Alaska) Dec. 27. Wreckage of a Super Fortress which has been missing since December 23 on a flight over the North Pole was sighted yesterday on a mountainside 90 miles north of Nome. Reports received indicated that at least Tour of the eight men aboard are alive. Army aircraft have been searching constantly over 145.000 square miles of Polar wastelands, hampered by bad visibility and the short Arctic winter day.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 29 December 1947, Page 5
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