BOMBER CRASH
EFFORT TO RESCUE SURVIVORS (Rec. 12.15) NEW YORK, Feb. 16. A 25-man party is struggling through snow-covered underbrush of craggy British Columbia Island today seeking the six remaining survivors of the 17 members, of the crew who baled out of the crippled B 36 bomber on Monday night. Ten of the men were rescued by a fishing boat and were flown to McChord, the Washington Air Fopce base last night. Another sergeant, Vitale Tripodi, was rescued after he had dangled by an ankle for 12 hours in a tree on the edge of a high cliff. Tripodi’s parachute caught in the tree, and he was left hanging by a foot. He is reported to have gangrene in both feet, and to be in a bad condition. The other six survivors are understood to be approximately three miles inland scattered along a three-mile long area. Search parties formd two of the men on Princess Royal Island. Both were injured. The searchers hope to find the other four soon. They reported hearing shots and shouts from an inland point on the rocky wooded island. . Four search parties are on the island, and aircraft are criss-crossing it on low runs.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 106, 17 February 1950, Page 3
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199BOMBER CRASH Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 106, 17 February 1950, Page 3
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