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MISSION REPORT - RESCUES -
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The camp was in shambles.
Three dead Japs were lying in the camp area, while others had been disposed of along the
shore of the lake and in the edge of the jungle. Seven of the surviving party had been
seriously wounded with knives, sabers and bayonets, none had been killed. The first aid
man, also injured in the battle, had dressed the wounded
and made them as comfortable as
possible. When the rescue plane arrived, the Medical Officer aboard, went ashore,
inspected the wounds, administered morphine and fluids and prepared the injured for
evacuation. One by one the wounded were loaded into the life raft and taken aboard the
rescue plane. The radios and personal equipment was either dumped into the lake or burned
with the camp. When all were aboard, the plane was taxied into deep water where the
seaweed, which had fouled the landing gear while taxiing inshore was removed. The third
attempt at takeoff was successful, after considerable heavy equipment had been thrown
overboard and 500 gallons of gasoline jettisoned into the lake.
During the process of making the ship ready for takeoff numerous Japs were observed
along the shore but no shots were fired but either side, the distance from shore being
approximately 1000 yards. The survivors were transported to
Owi
Island, where waiting ambulances transferred them to the 92nd
General Hospital. The survivors stated "We prayed for daylight and a PBY
and if heaven looks anything like a PBY we are going to change our ways."
See a
newspaper
article about
this rescue!
RESCUED MEN:
10 soldiers, 1 Jap prisoner
AIRCRAFT TYPE: OA-10A*
USAAF SERNO:
44-33875 ("Axle
Ass Annie")
(CV-325)**
CALLSIGN:
"Daylight
??"
CREW:
(Pilot)
Captain Gerard F.Wientjes;
(Co-Pilot)
2nd Lt. John S. Denison; (Navigator)
2nd Lt. Peter Y. Naylor;
(Radio) Corporal Raymond B.
Bean; (Radar) Sergeant George E. Bock; (Flight Surgeon) Major Donald W. Corlett
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The narrative of these rescues was compiled and published in April 1946 from
logbooks of pilots, notes, letters, and other
information by secretary
Marina G. de Guzman in Pampanga, Philippines.
*
Aircraft produced at Canadian Vickers Ldt, Cartierville, Quebec, Canada
** Canadian Vickers contract number that was unique to
each
aircraft produced by at the Cartierville, Quebec plan
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