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Show LIEUTENANT POST LOSES HIS LIFE Member of the First Aero Corps, of U. S. A. Falls 500 Feet To Instant Death San Diego, Cal., Feb. 10 Lieutenant Lieuten-ant II. B. Post, first aero corps, U. S. A. was instantly killed yesterday by a fall Of COO feet in a hyrdoplane. About 150 feet from the surface of tho bay Lieutenant Post was seen to shoot clear of the machine. It was 'said by watchers that the engine exploded. Lieutenant Post was flying for an altitude record. Ho tad the reputation of being tho best aviator in tho army camp on North Island, across the bay) from San Diego. Washington, Feb. 10 Second Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Henry B. Post, was born in New York, Juno 1G, 1885 nnd was commissioned as second lieutenant ot tho Twenty-fifth infnntry in 1911. His death makes a total of slxtocn In tho government aviation slnco 1008; fifteen fif-teen in tho nrmy nnd ono In tho navy. In nviatlon tho world over upprox-imately upprox-imately 435 persons havo met death slnco 1008, cloven having been killed during the present year. |