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...feeling from it. It's routine flight on which the bomber is shot down, and the picture makes you feel it's also routine for the crew to plug ahead, for calm Dutch girls to help them escape, and for British Naval vessels to find them on a floating buoy. Geogie Withers' interpretation of the unassuming girl who smuggles them out of the country leads a list of excellent acting jobs, with the entire British crew and Dutch townspeople a group of real humans...
...want to thank TIME for bringing us something besides the humdrum news of war, the fight for production, and self-sacrifice. These little success stories just buoy us up, make suffering easier, and make it all worth fighting...
...rugged fishermen of nearby St. Lawrence Harbor ran to the cliff top, lowered a boat on ropes. It capsized. The waves threw men from the two wrecks against the cliff base, some alive, many dead. Rigging a breeches-buoy to the ledge where half-frozen survivors perched, the fishermen brought up, one by one, those who were not washed away before their turn came. The dead numbered nearly 200, and Commander Hickox was among them...
Meanwhile the aviator, who had suffered a fractured skull and several broken ribs, had managed to grasp a buoy after being thrown clear of his sinking plane...
Just as the pilot was about to loose his grasp on the buoy, Warner pulled him into his small boat and rowed him safely to shore...