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Crash KillsTwo AirmenANCHORAGE, March 4, UP! ~ The air force reported Thursday that JLt. James E. Daniels, Columbia, Miss., and his radar observer were killed in the takeof crash of their fighfcer-interceptor plane Wednesday 300 miles southwest of here.The name of the radar observer was not released. Daniels was thepilot.The F-86D Scorpion lost power in its left engine as it cleared the runway at King Salmon airfield, crashed and exploded, Elmendorf air force base officials said.The two fliers were pulled from the wreckage and taken to the King Salmon dispensary, but both were dead before - they reached there.The Scorpion was attached to the 66th Fighter Interceptor squadron, based at Elmendorf. The King Salmon airfield Is a new installation on. the Alaska peninsula.
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Fairbanks Daily News Miner

Fairbanks, Alaska, US

Fri, Mar 04, 1955

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