FLYING-BOAT CREW RESCUED AFTER NINE HOURS IN SEA
(11 a.m.) PEARL HARBOUR, Mar. 28.
A rescue ship today took aboard nine crew members and two passengers from a sinking U.S. Navy Catalina flyingboat which had been adrift on the Pacific for nine hours. The Catalina had been forced down on a flight from Kwajalein to Johnston Island after one engine failed. The rescue vessel was landing a ship. All the survivors are well.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22907, 29 March 1949, Page 5
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