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•***’ *« * *»lt; « ►■ ' *■. • '• v sy.... ... W.J847 Crash Kills Two Airmen- Two died inPALACIOS, Tex. (AP) airmen irom Arkansas j JlamcK Tuesday when their B4? bomber fell like a ball of fire ontot.sCAI1 VVIrcpliul-)LEO McCOOMlt t . . navigatorROHKKT GORMAN . . pilot ef KansasW ArnhlfJUipat l hi'! Cfl^4I he Toxos coast, A third flier wasjnvlt;,i injured, ! OiThe two dead men from Little!sinr ■Rock Air Foree Base's flftMUvjcU. Bomb Wing were Capt, Leo Me* polii Coomb. 23, of Swansea. Mass., the II, navigator, and Maj. Robert Gor- ale roan, 33, of Bethel, Kan., the;sifli (Al* Wrephoi*) pilot.By ANTOINE YAKKD VIENTIANE, Loos (APi-Nc*P*■ThuThe binging wreckage nanwlyjrmn mis.scd the home ot .luck Rul!iiijHers Ion at Colicscport, across fromTfPalaciosbehveenChristi.atown auoui midway]1*1 sHouston and Corpus?a vo I jbeccBullmgfon and his wife wereCcthelunch and thought they heard fi! sonic boom. They ran uutside justj • * fin time io sf?e the fiery plane!■I 1 WIcrash. ,“it Jooked like a hall of fire/ l*^ said Buliiiigtiw* no employe of j jf)' Daw Chemical Co ;^rrrThe Bulling:ona gave first lt;^Hattaat the scene to the lone survivor, hC)1athet Lao want still more pres* suve applied Though they are tnlist and pro^Cormrmnisl advo-jstit) receiving Russian military cates of coalition rule for Laos j supplies through a Soviet airliftprofess to believe Premier Frincejfrcm Communist North Viet Nam, , , , . , „Boun Ourn's proWesicrn govern- i I hey are calling for [he United! 0 ^r0t5C an /,rm Ail(j *su^cre- ja£g rnent ivill roJlapsc in tv,o or three!Stales to drop all military nid toia l'u* survjVLJI ,rMn'|on mnnlhs. |the royal government as evidence*^*1 r° hl parachute.They look for e\Lsling and nr--of American sincerity. Khangi •^no^1C1, N^'1' tiwn 3!hire pressures from the Uniic.i Kliiiy officials said this would be!parachute, but was dead wnen liCjsor States lo force the ^overimieiU the death blowlt; landed. The other airman died mivlelinto final nc^nilt;ili(ins to jiul: simvanna is visilinK his famiiv ,he plani-Priniw* Knnv'.vnrut Phnnnift the* n. ..x.... * i! T in a;notiet11 eri .i-ue
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Abilene Reporter News

Abilene, Texas, US

Wed, Apr 11, 1962

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