AIR DISASTER
SEVENTEEN MEN KILLED IN PLANE CRASH ON MASSACHUSETTS MOUNTAIN. THREE SURVIVORS BADLY INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, August 16. A large army transport plane crashed and burnt on an isolated peak in the Berkshire Mountains, Massachusetts, killing 17 men in one of the worst disasters in the history of United States military aviation. Three badly-hurt men survived. Sergeant Robert Lee, Columbus (Ohio), whose clothes were burnt off his body, made two trips to the flaming wreckage, dragging four men from the plane and then made his way through dense underbrush to the nearest roadway and directed police to the scene of the wreck. Lee was later taken to hospital, where he was given only a fifty-fifty chance of recovery.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1942, Page 3
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122AIR DISASTER Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1942, Page 3
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