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CAPTAIN RICKENBACKER’S PARTY LEADER AND SIX OTHERS ALIVE. ONE MAN BURIED AT SEA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, November 14. All those aboard Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's plane, missing in the Pacific since October 21, have now been accounted for. Captain Rickenbacker. Colonel Hans Adamson and Private John Bartek were found alive on a raft. Sergeant Alexander Cacmazczik, who was with them, died and was buried at sea. Captain Cherry, pilot of Captain Rickenbacker's plane, was also found alive on a raft. Lieutenant James Whiteaker and John Denagelus and Staff-Sergeant James Reynolds were located by a Catalini flying boat ashore on a small island. The condition of Captain Rickenbacker and Colonel Adamson is reported to be good. That of Private Bartek is serious, but he is expected to recover. They were picked up 600 miles "north of Samoa. Another message says it is reported from Honolulu that Captain Rickenbacker and others of his party are now at an unrevealed South Pacific' base, suffering from exposure, hunger and thirst.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1942, Page 3
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