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I was a copilot on Milton Porter's crew Aug 42 to Jun 43. On 16th Nov 1942 a Lt Paul Larson-pilot, Lt Bassmore(?) cp, Lt Muetby(?) Navigator, Lt Sippel Bomb. were killed in a Night take-off accident at Iron Range, Aust. A B-24 was taking off and ran off the left side of the Iron range runway and hit 2 other B-24's taxing along the left side of the runway for their T.O. A big fire fire resulted and killed most of the three crews. As I remember Lt Larson was one of the crews taxing towards the end of the runway for Take Off (T.O.) The runway at Iron Range was quite narrow and there were tall Eucaliptus trees on each side of the runway. Bob Wegner
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I am the nephew of S/Sgt Thomas C. Sippel aka "Sipp" of the 321st BS. He flew with Maj Cecil Faulkner who became the 321st CO. Faulkner was later transfered out. Tom's crew was sent home due to...
more - Lt Paul R Larson, Nov 16, 1942 Bob Wegner, Sun Jul 6 11:07
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