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Navy Fliers EatCrabs, Snails ForChristmas DinnerKey West, Fla., Dec. 29 (UP)—Christmas dinner was just anotherserving of rainwater-boiled crabs and snails for two navy fliers recuperating here today after theirrescue from a barren island where they lived five days .following the crash landing of their lost plane.The castaways were Ensigns Harold B. Garretson, Waterloo, la., and Enlisted Man John P. Curran, Jr., Longmont, Clif., whose story of a blighted Christmas was revealed by navy officers. The men, missing since December 19, were rescued from the island, 85 miles west of here, December 26.Garretson, the pilot, landed his plane on the water when it was lost during a formation flight. The plane sank within two minutes after hitting the water, and the fliers barely had time to inflate a rubber life raft. A light, visible as they left the plane, disappeared before they could reach it.Sailing the high seas a night and a day, during which their light emergency craft overturned once, the airmen reached land on December 21.With but one dry match between them, Garretson and Curran built a fire, found rainwater in an old cistern and boiled crabs and snails ' for food. Curran reported that for Christmas dinner the menu wasonly slightly different—snails and crabs.u
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Moorhead Daily News
Moorhead, Minnesota, US
Fri, Dec 29, 1944
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