Navy Fliers Find Body Of Pilot Lost in Glades
March 17, 1947 -The Miami Daily News
More of a naval air reserve pilot whose plane crashed yesterday in the Everglades was found today by a navy aerial search party from Master’s field. Identity of the dead flier, who was on a routine training flight from Tampa to Miam was withheld by the navy pending notification of next of kin. The search squadron under the direction of Comander W.L. Cleveland of the Opa-locka naval air station located the planes and pilot in the Everglades near Okeechobee this morning. Only the pilot was aboard when it crashed.
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More of a naval air reserve pilot whose plane crashed yesterday in the Everglades was found today by a navy aerial search party from Master’s field. Identity of the dead flier, who was on a routine training flight from Tampa to Miam was withheld by the navy pending notification of next of kin. The search squadron under the direction of Comander W.L. Cleveland of the Opa-locka naval air station located the planes and pilot in the Everglades near Okeechobee this morning. Only the pilot was aboard when it crashed.
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March 18, 1947 - The Miami Daily News
Searchers yesterday found the wreckage of a navy training plane in the Everglades about 15 miles west of highway 21(27) between Miami and Lake Okeechobee and removed the body of Ensin Ralph N. Wachob, 26, of Fort Lauderdale, who was killed when his plane crashed en route from Tampa to Miami on a routine training flight Sunday. Wachob. A Pacific war veteran was attending University of Miami.
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Searchers yesterday found the wreckage of a navy training plane in the Everglades about 15 miles west of highway 21(27) between Miami and Lake Okeechobee and removed the body of Ensin Ralph N. Wachob, 26, of Fort Lauderdale, who was killed when his plane crashed en route from Tampa to Miami on a routine training flight Sunday. Wachob. A Pacific war veteran was attending University of Miami.
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