IN POOR STATE
RICKENBACKER'S PLANE I SCARRED BOMBER FROM HAWAII p ■ NAVIGATION INSTRUMENTS FAIL. WITH MACHINE FAR OUT AT SEA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 16. Corporal Bartek, who was rescued with Captain Rickenbacker, said the only plane available for Captain Rickenbacker’s secret mission on October 21, was a bullet-marked and bombscarred 817 bomber, which survived the Japanese bombing of Hawaii on December 7. 1941. The plane bore a small seal showing that it had been approved, so Captain Rickenbacker decided to try it. The navigation instruments failed when they were 500 miles out at sea and the pilot became lost.' Later all the instruments went dead. The pilot landed in the sea when the fuel supply failed. Corporal Bartek, who was an aviation mechanic aboard the plane, said another bomber was thoroughly checked and prepared for Captain Rickenbacker, but was sent on another mission before Captain Rickenbacker arrived.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1942, Page 4
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155IN POOR STATE Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1942, Page 4
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