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Two Die After Planes Collide Mid-Air (1940)

Eddie August Schneider as the subject of an article written by the International News Service and published in the Washington Post of Washington, DC on December 24, 1940.

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2 Die After Planes Collide in Mid-Air. Brooklyn, New York City; December 23, 1940 (International News Service) Two civilian fliers, one an American veteran of the Spanish Civil War, were killed today, in a mid-air collision between their plans and a naval reserve plane. The victims of the crash were Edward Schneider, who flew for the Loyalists in Spain, and George W. Herzog, a student. Their monoplane scraped wings with a Naval Reserve plane piloted by Ensign Kenneth Kuehner, who pulled his ship out of a spin and landed safely with Franklin Newcomber, a seaman who was a passenger in the service plane.

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