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AMERICAN SOLDIERS SYDNEY SURF RESCUE Sydney, Feb. 8. Two American soldiers who decided to sample Sydney’s much-vaunted surf considered it very over-rated as a pastime after an experience they had at Bronte beach tfiis week. The soldiers, Sergeant R. Burnett and Corporal J. Huff, hired costumes at the surf sheds, and, instead of bathing with the crowd, they entered the water at the southern end of the beach, where no one else was swimming. A deep channel runs along this end of the beach, and the men were soon in difficulties. Burnett was swept off his feet and Huff attempted to give him a hand, but the current was so strong that both men were swept out to sea. Beach Inspector W. Sullivan and a junior member of the surf club, R. Nixon, aged 16, went to their rescue, but had to swim 300 yards out through a big sea for the Americans. Sullivan brought in Huff, and Nixon, who had donned a life-saving belt, rescued Burnett. It was one of the longest “belt” swims on the beaches this season.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 9 February 1943, Page 5
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