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Aviation History
1945
1945 - 1982.PDF
O1920 Vol. XLVIII OCTOBER llth, 1945 AIRCRAFT ENGINEER OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB ONE SHILLING 8 MEN AND 2 DINGHIES After a run-in with a flock of Junkers 88s, eight of the crew of a British-based U.S. Navy Liberator crashed into the winter sea, and were rescued 20 hours later by a British Air-Sea Rescue craft. " We came down just as the light was failing, hit hard, and her went under water. 1 was stunned, and Lieutenantnose Lawrence Peterson dragged me out in time on to one of the two rubber dinghies. "The next day a British air-plane found us and we were picked up by the rescue craft, 19 hours and 34 minutes after we crash-landed. From the EVENING STANDARD, h r ?! f* v «* I o n in «* v o ii .•> t r u v I i o n <> I ! h «• H , V . K uii(»tli«- iht- a «• U it I v nl THE BRITISH POWER BOAT COMPANY LTD tactoti 0$ .Stcott-lQeiine designed ^uffjace.
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