BOMBER CRASH
FIVE A.I.F. MEN KILLED IN ' N.S.W. PLAN’g FALLS IN TIMBERED COUNTRY. PREVIOUSLY SEEN TO BE IN DIFFICULTIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright I SYDNEY. January 28. Five Air Force men were killed this evening when an Avro-Anson bomber crashed in the foothills of the Blue Mountains at Glenbrook. The bodies were so mutilated that identification is impossible until morning. 'I he bomber was flying from Parkes to Richmond aerodrome when residents at Glenbrook noticed that the plane was in difficulties. Pieces of the wings and fuselage were seen falling to the earth after which the plane crashed in limbered country and caught tire. Police and civilians tonight spent much time in searching the urea for the wreckage. They found the broken bodies widely separated, also five torn parachutes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1941, Page 5
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128BOMBER CRASH Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1941, Page 5
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