SELLER, Wilbur - killed Korean Training - Putnam

Greencastle, Ind Aug 27 – Military burial services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Greencastle for Maj. Wilbur W. Seller, who was killed in a jet plane crash Friday at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The jet test pilot, a native of Greencastle and a graduate of DePauw University was killed when a Lockheed F-94 crashed at the jet test center. In February 1949 the major was copilot of an 8-jet flying wing bomber that made a sensational flight from Muroc, Calif to Andrews Field AFB, Md in four hours and 25 minutes at an average speed of 511.2 miles per hour.