AIRMEN RESCUED
ADRIFT IN NORTH SEA LONDON, Sept. 28. (Received Sept. 29, at 7.30 p.m.) Coastal Command planes found the crew of a British bomber who had been adrift in the North Sea in a rubber dinghy in rough weather and acute cold for 84 hours German planes several times unsuccessfully attempted to prevent the rescue. British planes three times saw a dinghy tossing in heavy seas and bitter cold. It was impossible to keep the dinghy undei observation longer than five minutes. A parcel of comforts was dropped at the e«d of the first day. Those in the dinghy were unable to recover it, but they picked up a second parcel on the third day.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24416, 30 September 1940, Page 5
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