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Bombers Collide At Fedora; 10 DieV V V VVV V V VWithin a few minutes after three Flying Fortress army bombers droned over Huron late Sunday a collision sent two of them crashing to earth near Fedora, killing 10 crew members of one and injuring eight in the other. The first plane crashed and burned approximately two miles from where its tail assembly was sheared off. The other landed about seven miles southeast of the same spot and was badly damaged.Eyewitnesses said the two planes appeared to be shifting positions in a “V” formation and one was directly above the other when the collision occurred.Nine of the 10 men in the second plane were injured when it landed in trouble after the accident but attendants of Mitchell hospitals where eight were taken, said none was in serious condition.Capt. F. E. Shick, public relations officer at the Sioux Citv Army Air Base, to which the planes were attached, announced investigation was under way. He declined details but Miss Ella Esser, Howard telephone operator, said a Lieutenant Fuller of theplane in which the eight were in-®-jured reported that the two planes; and a third not involved in the ac-Hot Tip For Hotel Souvenir HuntersRICHMOND, Va. — (/P# — A Richmond hotel manager thought he had seen all of the tricks of souvenir hunters until—A woman, unable to secrete a wicker basket in her handbag perched it on her head and walked out of the hotel dining room.“And she almost got away with it.” sighed the manager, “women's hats are so crazy.”cident, were flying in formation just before the collision.Although observers late Sunday fixed the number of bodies removed from the bomber wreckage as 10, a Mitchell funeral parlor reported ioday that 11 bodies were brought there from the crash scene.Sioux City Army Air Base authorities said later there were 11 dead.Base spokesmen said next of kin were being notified as fast as the dead, several burned beyond recognition. were identified. Names of the victims were being withheld pending such notification.William Gullickson, farmer living about 4*2 miles*southeast of Fedora gave a graphic eyewitness account, j The three pianos were flying in a; t “V” formation, he said, when? he first saw them while he was fishing about 4 o’clock Sunday after- j noon at Twin Lake near his home.As he watched, along with his! brother, Pete, and a neighbor. E. H. jJohansen, the planes apparently = WASHINGTON, June 14 — lt;/P) — started to change their formation, j The nations draft-age fathers found hi said. One seemed momentarily little comfort today in disclosure by to be above the other, Gullickson1 the House appropriations committee reported, and then the two heavy ' ra^e army inductionsplanes collided and the tail assem-, b!y dropped from the upper bomber. I 'The plane without the tail started to earth,” Gullickson said,;‘ then zoomed upward, did a half , loop and flew on its back for a mile and a half before crashing and burning.” jCrash Near BuildingsTo Cut Draft Rate 60 Per Cent But Dads Will Be Gone! would be cut about 60 per cent aft-next December, with the bulk of 1944 inductees coming from the teen-age group.The committee’s information came from Paul V. McNutt, War Manpower Commission chairman, and Maj. Gen. Lewis B Hershey, Selective Service director, during hear-Back at the Gullickson house, Mrs. i inSs. on the WMC supPly biU re‘ported to the House today.It was to the effect that a majority of physically-fit fathers, regardless of their children, would be in uniform by the end of the year. Induction of this class is expected to start in August and run until the end of the year, when the armed forcesJohansen, visiting there, saw thej tail assembly crash 100 feet fronT the Gullickson farm buildings. Thej body of one of the airmen also fell there, about 200 rods from the Gul-j lick son barn, Mrs. Johansen said, j As members of the Gullickson and Johansen families watched. twofpieces of metal from the falling Monthly Rate 300.000p.ane dropped within a few feet of By the pnd of thu month McNutt®*ther side of the house. told the committee, the cream ofBodies of the nine other men ,^e najion\j manpower will have were removed from the charred | been pretty well exhausted with thearmed forces numbering 9,200,000 men. Between July 1 and Decem-wreckage of the craft after it crashed See BOMBER CRASH—Page Three
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Huron Evening Huronite
Huron, South Dakota, US
Mon, Jun 14, 1943
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