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Show i removed from the wreckage. The plane struck at an elevation eleva-tion of 4,500 feet. One wing was sheered off by a 75-foot pine tree before it buried its nose in the mountain side. Gasoline tanks amidships exploded and both bodies were burned beyond recognition. recog-nition. Love's identity was established estab-lished by his position in the cockpit- Static Blamed for Crash, Killing Two MARCH FIELD, March 30 (tl.R) A Northrop fighting plane's crash in the high mountains north of here Saturday night that killed two army flyers, was blamed today to-day on static that blotted out a radio "marker" on the valley be- tow. Fellow officers believed the static caused Lieut. Robert C. - Love, - 26 - to: miss the - Fontana Radio range as he groped through a rain, snow and sleet storm. Incinerated bodies of Lieut. Love, former university of Southern South-ern California football player, and Private Emory J. Parsons, 23, were |