Five Killed In B 26 Crash In West Texas
A two engine B 26 bomber from Biggs AFB crashed into brushy ranch country near Midland Texas killing five crewmen from El Paso and Shreveport. The plane, en route from Biggs to Barksdale, exploded on impact as overcast skies hung over the area.
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Midland
Tex
Air
Biggs Air Force Base
el Paso
Charles J. Lutz
Thomas Hillman
Shreveport
James R. Butler
Billy H. Miller
Ft. Worth
Robert E. Lee
Biloxi
Miss
Biggs
Barksdale Air Force Base
Tucson
Midland Police
Jack Ellington
West Texas
Biggs Field
Bodies Of 2 Navy Pilots Recovered After Crash In Arizona
At Williams Air Force Base Arizona ground crews reached a 6000 foot peak near Superior to recover two pilots killed when three navy fighter planes crashed while ferried from El Paso to Litchfield. The crew included Lt JG George A Hecker Ens James T Pilgreen and Ens John E Lawrence Jr. A third body lay on a distant peak with no signs of life. Police assess motive not yet known in later hotel shooting in Mexico where a man and a woman fled in a car after the bar killing of a cattle worker assisting the joint Mexican US commission. The worker was a Dallas Texas resident.
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Ariz
Naval Air Facility
George A. Hecker
Portsmouth
James T. Pilgreen
Shreveport
John E. Laurence Jr
Goresbeck
Tex
Cowan
Dallas
Swearing Over Sermon Leads To Man's Arrest
Hollywood report: Robert Shapiro, 27, jailed for muttering curses during an anticommunism church sermon. He stalked out mid address swearing. Deputy Marshal John H. Blewett Jr. charged him with causing a disturbance in a house of worship.
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Hollywood
UPR
Robert Shapiro
John H. Blewett Jr
Shapiro
Tennessee Killer Will Be Executed
Earl Bircham, a Tennessee gunman, is in Kentucky’s death house awaiting execution scheduled for March 18 for killing a Louisville patrolman. He had been linked to bank and store robberies in Tennessee and the South, was captured after a gun battle in Louisville, and denied a request to see his wife before being moved to the state prison.
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Eddyville
Tennessee
Earl Bircham
Kentucky
Louisville
Bircham
Two Officers Die in Shootout After Chasing Suspect
Patrolman John Tennyson and Officer John Ross pursued Bircham after he went the wrong way on a one way street on August 14. A gun battle ensued when Bircham crashed into a tree and Tennyson was killed while Ross was wounded. Bircham was later captured by an unarmed former Marine.
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Tennyson
John Ross
Bircham
Ross
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Kentucky Court of Appeals
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Graber
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