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Surviving Ocean Ordeal during World War II Scout Bomber Crisis
Robert Trumbull recounts the January 16 1942 ocean crash of a U S Navy scout bomber and five days adrift with Harold Dixon Gene Aldrich and Tony Pastula. They describe brutal heat thirst and hunger on a rubber raft as they struggled to reach safety on a distant atoll while rationing coffee and improvising fishing gear and shelter.
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South Pacific
Robert Trumbull
Harold ¥. Dixon
U.S.N
Gene Aldrich
Sunner
Tony Pastula
U. S. Navy
Aldrich
Gene
Mississippi River
Tony
Calavo
la Mesa
San Diego
Henry