Former Laurel Advocate employee tells of WWII airplane crash

In March 1943, Advocate employee Marvin Lawrence wrote an article about two flyers with Wayne, Nebraska, connections who met in North Africa. Following is an abridged version of what he wrote: On Oct. 4, 1942, a four-engined bomber with a crew of nine men was making a routine training flight over this territory. When the giant plane was about three miles southeast of Wayne, one of the motors went dead. Then the other three motor started acting up. The pilot scanned the countryside for a spot on which he could set the plane down while the copilot ordered other crew members to bail out.