The Archive · 1938

ONE U.S. BOMBER

LEFT BEHIND

Five Others Continue Mass Flight to Buenos Aires Lima, Feb. 17.

Only five of the original six United States flying fortresses taking part in mass flight to Buenos Aires hopped off from here to-day. One of the bombers was forced to remain behing Decause of propeller trouble when the other five ships left at 10.45 p.m.

Following the regular commercial route to Valparaiso, Chile and then east across the hazardous line above the, rugged Andes Mountains, the planes will arrive in Buenos Aires by noon to-morrow unless bad weather forces the planes to land at Valparaiso—United Press

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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