ZUM4875662: Tue 03, 1953 - This was the way the air incident near Regensburg happened. On a press conference held in Wiesbaden the two pilots of the American jet fighters attacked by the Czech jet fighters described the details of the incident which led to serious diplomatic entanglements. Ops: 1st Lieutenant Smith and 1st Lieutenant Brown (right) who was shot down by the Czechs. Keystone Picture dated March 12th, 1953. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4875874: Tue 03, 1953 - American jet-fighter shot down in Bavaria: An American jet-fighter F-84 being on a routine flight in Southern Germany was attacked and shot down by two Czech jet-fighters of Russian origin of the type NIG-15 about 25 kilometers before the Czech border, on Tuesday forenoon about 11 hours Middle-European time. The pilot could save himself by means of his parachuts. Our picture shows American air-police at the burnt-out wreckage of the F-84 which crashed near Falkenstein in the district of Roding. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4876063: Sep. 09, 1953 -” Virgins Crown” Honor Revived At A Funeral: Theme diagonal costume of carrying a virgin's crown was carried out at a funeral at Abbott's Ann, near Andover, Hants, today for the first time in 32 years.It is the only place in England where the ceremony is still observed in England where the ceremony is still observed. Virginia's crown is awarded on the death of an un-married person of unblemished character who as born, baptized and confirmed in the parish, and was a communicant of the church there. the crown, made of hazel wood and parchment, is carried at the head of the coffin by two young Virginia of the parish. It is then placed on the front of th church for three weeks. If by tghe ned of that tome no one has challenged of disproved the dead person's right to the honor the crown is hung in the church until it decays. The funeral at which it was arranged to confer the honorary today was that of 72-year-old Miss Florence Jane Wisewell, of Little Ann / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4876397: Sep. 09, 1953 - General Meets Admiral: General Alfred D. Gruenther, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces Europe, shake hands with Admiral Fechteller, Commander of the East Mediterranean Allied Fleets, at Shape this morning. Big naval manoeuvres will shortly take place in the Eastern Mediterranean. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4876410: Sep. 09, 1953 - Soviet delegated attends Radio Conference; Lord de La Warr, Postmaster General, today opened the seventh plenary assembly of the International Radio Consultative Committee, at Church House, Westminster. A party of Russian radio engineers, woman among the led by Conrad Jaingovatov, attended the assembly / Bridgeman Images