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Wreckage of Piper Tri Paced Plane Kills Four Servicemen
A Oswego police officer prepares to move four mangled bodies from the wreckage of a Piper Tri Paced plane found in a Yorkville field. The four victims Eugene N. Sather Wayne R. Studer Bernard C. Vandre and Cyrus W. Mansfull Jr. were stationed at Chanute air base after the plane refueled at Joliet. CAA officials believe the craft struck ground from a spin, burying engine and propeller deep in the earth.
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St. Cloud
Minn
Oswego
Joliet
Louis
LaVerne Borneman
William Burks
Yorkville
Highway 71
Burks
Eugene N. Sather
Osakis
Wayne R. Studer
Bernard C. Vandre
Cyrus W. Mansfull Jr
Pacoima
Calif
CAA
L. A. Perkins
Kendall County
Air Force
Chanute Air Base