HEROIC AIRMAN
FATALLY INJURED BUT WARNS RESCUERS. DANGER OF BOMBS EXPLODING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON. January 22. An Australian, Sergeant Pilot H. Mawby, died and three members of his crew were seriously injured when an air force bomber crashed on a beach on the West Coast after hunting Üboats in the Atlantic. '■ The pilot, who was badly crushed, was trapped in the cockpit, but he warned intending rescuers not. to approach too closely because of the danger of bombs exploding.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1940, Page 7
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80HEROIC AIRMAN Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1940, Page 7
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