PARACHUTE JUMP
AMERICAN LIEUTENANT'S FEAT
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, June 15. When the American pilot Lieutenant. Walter Gallagher, of Boston, bailed out of his fighter over Port Moresby at 25,000 feet recently he consulted his wristlet watch on the way down, and at 5000 feet he pulled the ripcord and floated to safety. He is now entitled to claim-the Australian and New Zealand record for a delayed parachute jump. Lieutenant Gallagher's machine was vitally hit in a combat with Zeros at a high altitude, and, with the strong wind blowing, the pilot's only hope of descending on land was to delay pulling the erjpcord !till he was only a few thousand.feet above, the landing field! He landed on, _ the centre, of;- the tarmac; while- his-plane /crashed- into the jungle five miles awafv '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 140, 16 June 1942, Page 5
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173PARACHUTE JUMP Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 140, 16 June 1942, Page 5
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