AIR ACCIDENT
TWO CORRESPONDENTS KILLED IN NEW GUINEA. AUSTRALIAN & AMERICAN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, December 28. An Australian war correspondent, Mr P. A. Rayner, and an American correspondent, Mr Brydon Taves, were killed in an air accident in New Guinea early on Sunday. Mr Haydon Leonard, of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and Mr lari Morrison, of “The Times” of London, were slightly injured in the same crash. The correspondents were setting out to gain eyewitness accounts of the Allied landing at Capo Gloucester and the plane crashed soon after the takeoff. Mr Raynor represented the Sydney “Sun” and Melbourne “Herald” and Mr Taves was the Australian manager of the American United Press. Mr Rayner was 34 and he leaves a widow and two sons. He had covered many operational assignments. Mr Taves, who was aged 29, was born in New York and in England. He married the Australian actress, Miss Diana Farnham this year.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1943, Page 3
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154AIR ACCIDENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1943, Page 3
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