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PHOTOCOPIED October 2, 2002; NASM PRESERVATION COPY

A-10 XX THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1954

2 Planes Carrying 6 Missing Off Norfolk

By the Associated Press

NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 27.—Two anti-submarine patrol planes from the Norfolk Naval Air Station were reported missing early today some 20 miles off the Virginia coast. They carried a total of six men.

Coast Guard and Navy air-sea rescue teams were sent into the area just a few hours after they rescued the pilot of a Navy Banshee jet fighter, ditches some five miles off Virginia Beach.

The Naval Air Station said the two propeller-driven patrol planes had only enough fuel to last until midnight last night. They had been due to return from patrol at 10 p.m. No radio distress signals had been heard at any time.

[Photograph of Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.]
[[caption]]NAMED GENERAL—Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, jr., is the first Negro general in the Air Force.[[/caption]] (Story on Page A-1.)