Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 21, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday november 21, 1949 two of b-29 Crew lost in three Day Nightmare Hamilton Bermuda swept to death in the struggle nov. 21 18 air Force men snatched from death by the Canadian Navy after their b-29 super fortress went Down at sea sunday told of a three Day night Mare. After a gruelling fight with the sea in two rubber life rafts which pitched helplessly in 20-foot Waves the men were pick eel up and landed Here sunday by the destroyer Haida. They told How one of their rafts turned Over three times now plane after plane roared Over them through the Low hanging Clouds How they prayed and refused to give up Hope. Told comrades How two of their to reach the life rafts. At the Hospital Salt hurried bruised Cut exhausted hut very thankful they Lay in White Beds and indulged in the luxury of puffing cigarettes As they told their stories. A 18 will be out of Hospital in week doctors said monday. The survivors said their last two flares brought help to them. 20-foot Waves it. Col. John Graby jr., com and the 2nd told How they to find Ber manding the b-29 bombing Squadron flew around hoping Muda under every the 20 officers and Ine 20 men swept to death in men aboard the. Local plane were surging sea. They prepared Lor a crash in what they thought was a Calm sea. Only to find the Waves 20 feet High. He old How the Tail broke off How the plane stated afloat for 33 minutes How prayed and How Jet key distilled Whitcr on their Little emergency machine and ate their Candy like emergency rations after they cot on the life rafts. Sgt. William h. Pratt one of the four who came ashore on stretchers told How he saw two of the red rough hands enjoy sooth ins Comfort prompt buy Inrid Khawn. Medicated emollient. Clit Cura ointment chronic bronchitis does choking gasping. Wheezing chronic bronchitis make your life a misery arc you kept awake by a dry. Packing or phlegm bronchial cough get last Safe Relief with Templeton a specially made to relieve the torment of asthma. Chronic bronchitis. Hay fever. At druggists everywhere. K-3-i a Clit. Sgt. I Alt said that both men seemed to be caught up in a sudden sweep of wind and water find car ried from the rafts. Ii was a pitiful thing to Sec them Savici s. Sgt. John. Burch los Angeles but. There was nothing we could badly injured sgt. Burch said one of the men swept. Overboard was injured badly in the crash and might have Beer dead when he i the water. In the first few chaotic min utes after the plane came Down it was every Man for himself. Tile Firrest Lif Craft was lost when the Tail broke off. Then they started helping each other. It was 011 he second night Iha. On of the rafts overturned twice and miraculously All were saved the next Day Friday it turned Over again All Clim Ber Back on it. The Captain of the destroyer Haida a trim Little ship which is i Veteran of Iho grim wartime run o Prussia s Arctic Murmansk told his Story in his report to the can Adian Navy. The Captain put the site of his escue about-300 Miles Northeast if Bermuda after the rafts had drifted three Days. Although heavy seas made the operation both difficult and Hazard Ous the 18 survivors were 44 dead or in four air crashes Toronto nov. 21 four persons Are dead forty or Missin As the result of. Four air tragedies during the week end. Worst crash occurred when a dutch Airliner was lost Early Mon Day near Oslo. Norway on the last Lap of a flight from North Africa. The plane carried jewish their three Day ordeal Over survivors of the b-29 sea crash manage smiles As they sit on the deck of a crash boat in a Bermuda Harbor sunday. After a gruelling fight on life boats with the Atlantic the men were picked up sunday by the Canadian destroyer Haida shown in Hack in the picture above 14 of the 18 survivors Are shown shortly after they were transferred from the destroyer for the trip to a United Stales Hospital. Refugee children and six adults. A search is being made. A Royal air Force flying boat crashed while taking off from Singapore sunday night killing Kenton Pool has annual meeting Kecton Kan. Nov. 22 special the annual meet ing of the Kenton Pool elevator was held on monday in the municipal office. Officers elected for the coming year Are president Alex. Forrest vice president. J. L. Curry Secre tary a. A. Wallace Board of directors j. L. Curry Alex. Forrest. Clarence Good. Arnold Hill William Holland. Ii. Osley and a. Roberts. Wal lace Moffat. Of Brook Dale director of this District and. Macdonald. District superintendent also attended the meeting. Five of the 14 air Force men aboard. Seven were injured two critically. A big freight plane bearing Christmas gifts crashed in Detroit saturday taking the lives of three persons. The plane hit a House and burst into flame. Four were injured one seriously. In Canada a youth of 20 was drowned when a plane crashed saturday while trying to take off. From Trout Lake in the Haliburton District of Ontario. Dead is Ernest Windover a clerk from Minden. Out. The Pilot. Sam Howe of Oril iia. Was Able to swim ashore be fore he collapsed. Fags 9 More Comfort wearing false Teeth Here is a pleasant 10 overcome Loose discomfort. Fas Teeth improved powder sprinkled on upper Ana lower holds them that pcs they ,.c Kalin pm fed More comfortable. No past a be clans. Does not sour denture ensure breath. Get fas Teeth today at any drug Tore. At ctr electronically tested for accuracy at reliable jewellers about 12.0ti . Day All the planes picked up without destroyer of the . Wick s report said. Incident by Royal Canadian t. G. 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It was spotted dropping a Parachute equipped Canvas boat and we increased to full Speed. Then we sighted two Yel Low life rafts. One of the Haida s men managed to be into the can Vas boat in which tie survivors then were from the Haida s whaler. He was followed by others of the Crew and they rugged the survivors up the scramble netting. The 18 men lost he use of their legs they were numb. As soon As we Sot them awol try the destroyer they were rushed to the wardroom strip Ped. Of their sodden.lntliinj and wrapped in warm manuals. Then we put them to Haida and magnificent will continue on a training cruise. Swan sea turned Back to Halifax after the cover a torpedo struck and she Sank rapidly. Haida exacting Swift revenge drove an. Enemy destroyer on the rocks in flames then returned to pick up Ahab Ziskan s survivors. Hindu s wartime record also included the sinking of a suit Marine russian Convoy escort find liberation of norwegian ports. More about Freedman continued from Page 1 from two Points Rescue. Seas became rough soon alter the Haida picked up the men la cmdr. Madgwick said. The destroyer be approached of View. Four Point programme first it sketched a four Point programme to increase the Dollar earnings of deficit countries. The programme included 1. Maintenance of a High level of Industrial activity and consumer purchasing Power in the Dollar area particularly the United among states. Thus sustaining other things the level of. Imports. 2. Appropriate action by the hard currency countries to increase and roiled As the survivors from cu1 and drawn Wilh exhaust i y fed and made As com i 3 Arl increase in the compete portable As possible in the Haida s ivc Power of soft currency pro tiny wardroom. Duels in hard currency markets by not bad shape a further reduction in Cost and and they weren t in bad Thel just meals in Quality. But the majority seemed fairly lit. Only one survivor appeared in an extremely weakened condition. Despatches from the Haida to naval Headquarters in Ottawa said inc tribal class destroyer has been directed to the location of the life boat by an american b-17 search bomber. Some very weak the Pilot of the bomber which spotted the men or. Their two rubber life rafts said some were so weak it took them 45 minutes of Transfer into a Lifeboat dropped by Parachute. Joe added hat his own plane must have passed Over the races at least 15 times on thursday without seeing them. Less than two hours after the atm rican plane had drop Ped the Lifeboat the Haida reached the spot. The 38 men mad hardly finished Transfer ring to the boat from two rubber life rafts. Haida was standing by the Cana Dian aircraft Carrier magnificent at the Lime. Eight planes were land ing on the deck of the Carrier. The . Plane was spotted circling an area about 14 South. When the aircraft dropped a Parachute. Haida was immediately detached by the magnificent. Working up to 26 knots through heavy seas she soon reached the area indicated by the aircraft. There at about. 2.30 . Est Haida found a Large Canvas boat in which the is men huddled. Eight sailors from the Haida the youngest 19 and the oldest 47 braved the turbulent Atlantic in tiny Cratt to Rescue the is survivors. Stormy seas intensity of the Stormy seas was illustrated by the fact that Waves shipped Over the flight deck of the magnificent. The flight deck is some 60 feet from water level in Calm weather. Congratulatory messages were despatched saturday night to the destroyer by Hon. Brooke Claxton defence minister. Vite Admiral h. T. W. Grant chief of naval staff and Admiral Forrest p. Sherman chief of naval operations of the . Navy. The first of the hazardous Small vessel operations in the spectacular Rescue was undertaken by six men in a 27-foot whaler. The second operation was the Transfer in another Small Craft of a doctor and medical assistant from the magnificent to the Haida to care Cor the is survivors. Coxswain of the whaler was 22 year old Petty officer James e. Callighen of Toronto. At 19, Able Seaman t. Scratch. Halifax was the youngest to take part in the main Rescue operations. The oldest was surgeon com Mander Eric h. Lee 47, of Saskatoon and Ottawa. . T. G. Madgwick skip per of the Haida told his Story of the Rescue late sunday after berth ing the destroyer at the . Naval operations base Ori Bermuda Island. It. Cmdr. Madgwick told reporters we were steaming fast but searched All Day Friday without any Luck. Magnificent and Swan sea were with us. Saturday Horning the seas were plenty High and heavy gales lifted the Carrier s Bow 30 to 40 feet in the air. While she Rose and fell bucking Waves which crashed con lived skipper said. They smiled and said they were mighty glad to see us. We were mighty glad to see them because for a Long while Hunt did t Jook too surgeon commander Lee super Vised treatment of the survivors Many of whom were suffering from exposure and were in weakened condition. The Stormy seas prevented Transfer of the 38 survivors to the magnificent equipped with Bettr medical facilities than the smaller Olalda. Rescue at sea was nothing new for the 3no-foot destroyer. Her feat saturday was a peace time sequel to spectacular War time action. Haida and her sister ship athabaskan were out alone one night in 19-13 when they joined action against ships although heavily outnumbered. The athabaskan suffered damaging hits and caught fire. Before she could re 4. Maintenance of an economically sound relationship of prices and also costs Between soft hard currency countries. 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