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‘Hair A,Women RanScreaming...'EL CENTRO (API—Screaming women with their hair on fire and the terrified cries of little children were described by a shaken Air Force sergeant , who saw a tw in-engine jet |bomber plow into the commis- . sary of a Navy air facility here.1M. Sgt. Charles M. Moody, 49. had just stepped out of the commissary when the plane ripped into the building Tues-!day. I“1 saw the plane veer across the parking lot and I ran.“Debris hit me from behind and I was knocked down.”Moody blacked out momentarily and he described the scene when he came to:“Women were running across the street through the burning heat with their hair on fire. |'Their children were screaming and there was nothing I could do.“Then I realized that I was! weeping and blood was running down my face.“I started walking toward the; dispensary and I fell.”Moody was taken to the dispensary and the first person he saw there was an infant. I “Its face was burned—a terrible sight,” he said.Moody’s car was destroyed by fire in a parking lot beside the commissary. He suffered back and shoulder injuries and cuts on his face.
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Eureka Humboldt Times
Eureka, California, US
Wed, Oct 28, 1964
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