SURVIVORS RESCUED BY SLOOP
• SYDNEY, April 15. Eight sutvivors of an R.A.A.F. Liberator, which crashed into the sea 75 miles south of Mindanao in the Philippines, were rescued by the sloop, H.M.fei. Opossum, after floating for 17 hours in two ruhber dinghies. The Liberator was carryin g a crew of eight and .two Australian civilian passengers. Two men were killed. The Opossum landed three survivors at Zamboanga, and was diverted to Manus Island with the remaining five. men.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 April 1946, Page 8
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