FATAL CRASH
SOVIET HEROINE KILi.ED * — WITH HIGH AVIATION OFFICIAL. STATE FUNERAL ORDERED. Dy Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.50 a.m.) LONDON. May 12. "The Times" Warsaw correspondent says that Anatoli Seroff, head of the Russian Air Inspectorate was flying with Pauline Osipova, who was given a captaincy in 1938 for long distance and altitude records, when they crashed and both were killed. Mlle Osipova, who held the Order of Lenin, was entitled a Hero of the Soviet Union and will be given a State funeral and immured within the walls of the Kremlin.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1939, Page 8
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94FATAL CRASH Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1939, Page 8
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