Six Lose Lives In Plane Crash
Corpus Christi, Texas, May 14 (AP). - An instructor, and aviation cadet and four enlisted men were killed when a seaplane crashed Friday, fifteen miles northeast of the Naval Air Station on the mud flats of Harbor Island, the naval station announced Sunday.
Killed were:
Ensign Dexter Junior Russell, 24, Merlin, Ore.; Aviation Cadet Francis Joseph Tobin, 20, Washington, D.C.; Benjamin Franklin Neves, 19, aviation machinist's mate, second class, Jerymyn, Texas; Charles Edward McWilliams, 22, seaman first class, Trinity, Texas; Franklin Ernest Adams, 27, ship's cook, third class, formerly of Kingsville, Texas, and Sammie Green, 27, steward's mate, first class, formerly of Cuero, Texas.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 15May1944
Corpus Christi, Texas, May 14 (AP). - An instructor, and aviation cadet and four enlisted men were killed when a seaplane crashed Friday, fifteen miles northeast of the Naval Air Station on the mud flats of Harbor Island, the naval station announced Sunday.
Killed were:
Ensign Dexter Junior Russell, 24, Merlin, Ore.; Aviation Cadet Francis Joseph Tobin, 20, Washington, D.C.; Benjamin Franklin Neves, 19, aviation machinist's mate, second class, Jerymyn, Texas; Charles Edward McWilliams, 22, seaman first class, Trinity, Texas; Franklin Ernest Adams, 27, ship's cook, third class, formerly of Kingsville, Texas, and Sammie Green, 27, steward's mate, first class, formerly of Cuero, Texas.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 15May1944
Six Lose Lives In Plane Crash
Corpus Christi, Texas, May 14 (AP). - An instructor, and aviation cadet and four enlisted men were killed when a seaplane crashed Friday, fifteen miles northeast of the Naval Air Station on the mud flats of Harbor Island, the naval station announced Sunday.
Killed were:
Ensign Dexter Junior Russell, 24, Merlin, Ore.; Aviation Cadet Francis Joseph Tobin, 20, Washington, D.C.; Benjamin Franklin Neves, 19, aviation machinist's mate, second class, Jerymyn, Texas; Charles Edward McWilliams, 22, seaman first class, Trinity, Texas; Franklin Ernest Adams, 27, ship's cook, third class, formerly of Kingsville, Texas, and Sammie Green, 27, steward's mate, first class, formerly of Cuero, Texas.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 15May1944
Corpus Christi, Texas, May 14 (AP). - An instructor, and aviation cadet and four enlisted men were killed when a seaplane crashed Friday, fifteen miles northeast of the Naval Air Station on the mud flats of Harbor Island, the naval station announced Sunday.
Killed were:
Ensign Dexter Junior Russell, 24, Merlin, Ore.; Aviation Cadet Francis Joseph Tobin, 20, Washington, D.C.; Benjamin Franklin Neves, 19, aviation machinist's mate, second class, Jerymyn, Texas; Charles Edward McWilliams, 22, seaman first class, Trinity, Texas; Franklin Ernest Adams, 27, ship's cook, third class, formerly of Kingsville, Texas, and Sammie Green, 27, steward's mate, first class, formerly of Cuero, Texas.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 15May1944
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