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ROME, Feb. 4. =) —Twenty- 1 tree, army personnel, including three nurses, were killed Friday when a transport plane carrying 26 American army personnel crash ed into a mountainside 60 miles north of Rome. The only uninjured survivor was Lt. G. M. Baen, of New York city, who pushed the pilot to safety as Names enveloped the gasoline c soak ed wreckage. An enlisted car alsa arrvived. ae The plane, a twin-engined C-17 of the U.S. iith air force, was en route from Florence to Wonie, it ran into a tenseng in a river valer a few minutes after taking off. ‘ “ Baco said the plane was following a river because the weather was x0 bad when it suddenly went into a cloud. The plane brushed tree~ tons and then crashed mud skidded 200 yards over the crest of a moun tain, Baco added. = The pilot, whose leg was broken In the crash, blocked Bacon's way out and Baco shoved him, all through the windshield. “I got the pilot by the collar and somehow dragged him 30 yards from the plane before I fell down.” Baco said. “The Nomex quickly consumed the plane.” * After fixing a tourniquet on the pilot's Jeg, Baco walked two miles down the ‘mountain for ajd, ' cae teme .
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Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Mon, Feb 05, 1945
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