TWO AIRMEN KILLED
FATAL CRASH NEAR WAITARA DURING NIGHT TRAINING FLIGHT. BOTH VICTIMS FROM AUCKLAND (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Two members of the R.N.Z.A.F., both from Auckland, were killed when their aircraft on night training crashed near Waitara at 9.45 last night. They were: — Flight Lieutenant Harold Cuthbert Wiles, aged 32, married, eldest son of Mr H. O. Wiles, Lucerne Road, Auckland.
Leading Aircraftman Norman William Wilson, aged 25, single, son of Mr W. Wilson, Kiwi Road, Devonport. Flight Lieutenant Wiles was an old boy of Auckland Grammar School and was a keen club flyer and a member of the Territorial Air Force before the war. He was stationed at Ohakea till recently.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1941, Page 4
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