Word: crewmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this winter. Less than an hour after the fuel tanks were filled, fire broke out in the auxiliary engine room, jumped to the left wing, exploded the gasoline in the wing tank before the five men aboard knew what had happened. The four crewmen, led by Pilot Horst Merz, well aware that thousands of gallons of gasoline lay in the deep bottom tanks, seized fire extinguishers and attacked the great tower of flame that shot from the wing. They quenched it without the aid of volunteers who came scurrying across the bay in small boats from the Portuguese naval...