RESCUE OF AIRMEN FROM SEA
BRITISH CREW AFLOAT IN DINGHY
(Received September 29, 7 p.m.) LONDON, September 29.
Coastal Command planes found the crew of a British bombei' 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. Coastal Command planes and warships saved the crew, who were adrift for 84 hours. British planes three times saw the dinghy tossing in heavy seas in bitterly cold weather. It was impossible to keep' the dinghy under observation longer than five minutes. A parcel of comforts was dropped at the end 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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Southland Times, Issue 24244, 30 September 1940, Page 6
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134RESCUE OF AIRMEN FROM SEA Southland Times, Issue 24244, 30 September 1940, Page 6
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