• find article in Buffalo newspaper regarding a plane crashing into Curtis Wright airplane factory on 09/11/1942 and killing 11 men one of which was my father Sam Shalala. He was identified by a darned sock. Can you find the article?


  • Phil87 -- There are very few newspapers archived and available online before 1980. Indeed, most starting making their daily versions available after 1995, when the Internet soared in popularity -- but they do it for a fee. Here's an example of what a good reference library would have: http://www.csulb.edu/library/subj/u.s._history_newspapers.html Now, an incident as major as this one would be reported in the New York Times, which is digitally archived back to 1851 -- though it's available only via Proquest Historical newspapers, a fee-based database available online (for free) at major public libraries. Would you be interested in a summary of those accounts? And I do have to ask, since I've met her: are you related to Donna Shalala, the former Secretary of HHS and current president of the University of Miami? http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/shalala.html Best regards, Omnivorous-GA


  • Yes....Donna Shalala is my cousin and I will be visiting her this month at the University of Miami. No sense in continuing the search. I have the newspaper article at home but wanted to show it to someone here in Fl.


  • Phil -- In what may be a "small world" coincidence, I believe that my father worked at that Curtiss-Wright factory in 1938-1940, as he later made reference to being a tool-and-die maker on the P-40 fighter. He was born and raised in Buffalo (and his sister worked at Bell Aircraft in Buffalo). However, by the start of World War II in late 1941 he had moved to Cleveland, OH. Best regards, Omnivorous-GA


  • The Buffalo News was not formally indexed until recently (within the last 15 years or so). While you could find a copy of this through microfilm records by going through the reels for that time period (you have a date, which is good), getting your hands on another copy any other way is highly unlikely. Also as a FYI, the other paper of record at that time was the Courier Express (also not indexed anywhere). They enjoyed a reputation of having a stronger, better newspaper than the News and often their coverage is more detailed. Regards, luciaphile-ga







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