Word: canso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twelve-Day Search. Weak from short rations and exertion, chilled by near-freezing rain, they fell to their knees in prayer when a Catalina flying boat (called a "Canso" in Canada) flew over them, wagging its wings. The pilot directed them to the nearest lake, where he landed and set out to meet them. After twelve days, the biggest air search (40 planes, one blimp) in Canada's history was over. Said resourceful Sergeant Scalise, thinking of the regular plane he was to have taken: "I guess I took the wrong taxi...
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