NINE AIRMEN RESCUED
(Rec. 12.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. M A rescue plane has token off the nine British servicemen stranded for more than a week on the Greenland Ice-cap, after their plane crash-landed.
The Air Ministry said it had no details of the rescue, but presumed that an American skl-fltted plane did the job. The news came to London In a radio meaaaee “all out," from Thule, the American air base in Greenland. Orislnally 12 men were stranded on the Ice-cap on Bentember 1«. Three were injured, and they were taken off two days a«o by an Albatross amphibian plane Ptted with jet-assisted take-off equipment.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26847, 27 September 1952, Page 7
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