Show W 11 1 CH RASHED NEAR RANDOLPH k 1 randolph utah four large U S trucks two semi trailer and tw two smaller trucks from hill field with a crew of thirteen men arrived last tuesday to gather up the wreckage of the U S bomber which crashed in rabbit creek not far from the L 13 johnson ranch sunday nov 28 about 11 p TO captain forsythe was in charge of the wrecking crew with headquarters at art randolph the wreckage strewn over a large area took the crew three days to find and gather up captain forsythe estimated the salvage at about 25 tons two sern semi trailers about 75 feet long were loaded to capacity the wrecks wreckage was neatly loaded and well covered so it was impossible to tell what the were carrying it seemed almost impossible that all the scrap loaded on the trucks was once an airplane the trucks left randolph last friday ifor for hill field the U S bomber from the pocatello air base the third plane to er crash ash in rich county was returning irom from a secret mission to oklahoma city it was mounted with guns but no bombs the bomber became lost when it encountered a heavy storm and the radio failed to work it seems it first became lost over paris and th the e south end of bear lake bointy coi nty circling over these places several times then flying south over bear lake the pilot sighted search continued on an last page SALVAGE BOMBER WHICH CRASH 1 l continued from ppe OPP one lights on bear lake which were used in searching for lost fishermen on the lake when the pilot discovered it was a lake he turned and flew east cast nearly to kemmerer wyo then circled back it was said the fuel pumps and radio failed to function it was vas at this time the pilot could see that they were doomed so he started dumping the crew of five out in parachutes the first man came to earth east of sage wyo eight minutes passed before the second and third men jumped they landed near the divide east of bear lake one coming east from the divide and the other went west to the hyrum north eden ranch the pilot must have circled again for he and the other man came to earth not far from where the plane era crashed shed and walked to the L B johnson ranch two of the men were injured one receiving several fractured ribs and the other a badly sprained ankle we understand it was the first time the airmen had jumped from a plane the five men considered themselves very fortunate to be alive having to jump from a plane in a blinding snow storm over strange country |