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The Raft : [The Courageous Struggle of Three Naval Airmen Against the Sea]

Experiences of three Navy flyers, H. F. Dixon, Tony Pastula, and Gene Aldrich, who spent 34 days on a rubber raft, as told by Dixon to the author.

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  • "Experiences of three Navy flyers, H. F. Dixon, Tony Pastula, and Gene Aldrich, who spent 34 days on a rubber raft, as told by Dixon to the author."@en
  • "When a plane carrying three airmen fails to return from its bombing mission on January 16, 1942, the U.S. Navy can afford only a brief search before giving the men up as dead. Pacific Ocean resources are stretched thin following the destruction at Pearl Harbor that led America into war a month earlier. But the three airmen survive their crash."@en
  • "When a plane carrying three airmen fails to return from its bombing mission on January 16, 1942, the U.S. Navy can afford only a brief search before giving the men up as dead. Pacific Ocean resources are stretched thin following the destruction at Pearl Harbor that led America into war a month earlier. But the three airmen survive their crash."
  • ""The sinking of the plane was like a magician's trick. It was there and then it was gone, and there was nothing left in our big, wet, darkening world but the three of us and a piece of rubber that was not yet a raft." In 1942, three men on an antisubmarine patrol flight became lost and pitched into the Pacific. The plane sank beneath them, carrying most of the survival gear down with it. For thirty-four scorching days and shivering nights, they faced the ocean terrors on a four-by-eight-foot rubber raft. They had no water, food, compass, or paddles--only their will to survive. But by feats of super endurance, they made their way to the South Sea isle of Puka Puka, having meandered 1,200 miles."@en
  • "When a plane carrying three airmen fails to return from its bombing mission on January 16, 1942, the U.S. Navy can afford only a brief search before giving the men up as dead. Pacific Ocean resources are stretched thin following the destruction at Pearl Harbor that led America into war a month earlier. But the three airmen survive their crash.--"
  • "On January 16, 1942, three Navy flyers, H. F. Dixon, Tony Pastula, and Gene Aldrich, boarded a TBD Devastator aircraft for an antisubmarine patrol flight. They became lost, ran out of fuel, and ditched in the Pacific. This is the story of their 34-day, 1,200-mile journey of survival, as told by Dixon to the author."
  • "When a plane carrying three airmen fails to return from its bombing mission on January 16, 1942, the U.S. Navy can afford only a brief search before giving the men up as dead. But remarkably, the three airmen survive their crash. Adrift in a tiny raft with no food or water and little more than the clothes on their backs, they battle searing heat, devasting hunger and thirst for 34 days. This true story of courage and perseverance includes a forward and afterword that clearly places the events in full historic perspective."@en
  • "When a plane carrying three airmen fails to return from its bombing mission on January 16, 1942, the U.S. Navy can afford only a brief search before giving the men up as dead. But remarkably, the three airmen survive their crash. Adrift in a tiny raft with no food or water and little more than the clothes on their backs, they battle searing heat, devasting hunger and thirst for 34 days. This true story of courage and perseverance includes a forward and afterword that clearly places the events in full historic perspective."
  • "When a plane carrying three airmen fails to return from its bombing mission on January 16, 1942, the U.S. Navy can afford only a brief search before giving the men up as dead. Pacific Ocean resources are stretched thin following the destruction at Pearl Harbor that led America into war a month earlier. But the three airmen survive their crash. They had no water, food, compass, or paddles -- only their will to survive."
  • "When a plane carrying three airmen fails to return from its bombing mission on January 16, 1942, the U.S. Navy can afford only a brief search before giving the men up as dead. Pacific Ocean resources are stretched thin following the destruction at Pearl Harbor that led America into war a month earlier. But the three airmen survive their crash. They had no water, food, compass, or paddles -- only their will to survive."@en

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