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With the presence of Colonel Chief of the Air Base Sewer and Director of the School of Skydiving "Mendez Parada" Fernando Goy Martin, accompanied by the Mayor of Sewell, Joaquín Buendía Gómez and several military commanders of the Unit, in the morning in the Municipal Cemetery of Sewell, it has had the customary remember every year by this date has for the two soldiers buried in niches owned Air Base and for various reasons and not on duty, died in the 1961 and buried in our town.
The chaplain of the Air Base, Miguel Angel Romero, made a dirge by the graves of soldiers and members of the unit placed two separate bouquets.
The two soldiers while not the Air Force, were paratroopers of the Army, but doing skydiving courses at the Military Academy.
Both died in 1961, in one of the niches color soldier Antonio Ondo Motorcycles, born in Rio Muni (Equatorial Guinea) is, having passed 22 years and was a student of 63 basic parachute course, died suddenly, in Miserere pain typical of the time, arriving after a permit and state that he was sick.
While in the other niche it is as has been investigating the Deputy Mayor of the Base, Angel Garcia, the soldier of 21 years Simon Jimeno Gonzalez, a native of Roda de Eresma (Segovia), who died drowned when he fell to the Segura River a near Sewer area while bathing along with other fellow students paratroopers of the 65th course of Army, fell into a hole-hole so badly that he could not go out not knowing how to swim, I perishing drowned unable to assist him their classmates.
As stated, "once that he had knowledge of the Base out several patrols to try to rescue the corpse."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla
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