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FATAL PLANE CRASH AT WEST GEORGETOWNOfficer and Enlisted Man Victims of Accident Late Friday AfternoonAn officer and an enlisted man were killed when their U. S. Navy plane crashed and bunted in West Georgetown Friday afternoon in the second fatal plane crash of the week in Southwestern Maine.On a routine (light from the Naval Air Station, the plane crashed in a field only a few hundred feet from the barn on the Thomas N. Williams farm, West (k*orgetown, some nine or ten miles from this city. The officer who was pilot of the craft was trapped in the cockpit and perished in the flames which quickly enveloped the craft. The enlistee! man accompanying him was thrown clear of the plane in the crash but was instantly killed by the impact.A high column of black smoke could be seen from Bath for some time after the plane crashed and a still alarm saw the service truck and Fire Chief Richard Frates hastening to the scene as a precautionary measure.Machine gun carrying Marines quickly threw a guard around the area and other Navy planes hovered over the scene for several hours after the crash, witnesses said.Names of the victims were withheld pending notification of next of kin.
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Bath Independent
Bath, Maine, US
Thu, Feb 03, 1944
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