Show 7 Airmen lost I II I i lehan ANCHORAGE Alaska July G 6 GUP GUP UP The craggy Aleutian islands veiled the fate Thursday of seven se crew members of a U. U S. S air force B 17 which crashed while on an Arctic m mercy rcy mission James Upson dispatcher for Reeve Ree Aleutian Airways said he reec received ed a radio report from Adak Alaska say saying n- n there were one or orI I more fatalities Alaska air ail command officials said poor communications would delay reports however The air all r res rescue e s c cue to a plane cr crashed 10 miles from its takeoff I point Adak while on a mercy mercy I flight to Alaska to take a sick soldier to the Adak base h o 0 sp i ita t a 1 1 I. The wreckage was sighted Wednesday by a searching searching- na navy vy crash boa boat t. t The Tho B 1 B 17 left Adak at 1019 pm p.m. Alaska Standard time lime am a.m. EDT Wednesday Tuesday in a foot 1000 overcast o The Adak I control tower reported it lost contact contact con con- con I tact shortly after afler the takeoff A second rescue squadron B 17 j I searched for the missing plane r The Alaska air command said the craft crashed near Zeto Zeta point in Kuluk ba bay 10 miles west of Adak There were seven U. U S. S I service men aboard the command I added I |