Word: haugland
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Very much the worse for his 47-day journey through New Guinea's tangled jungle, Vern Haugland (TIME, Oct. 1) awoke last week from a nine-day delirium, smiled and said: "Tell my mother I've been real sick...
...great, grey-green, greasy New Guinea jungles last week staggered an American newspaper man with a World War II record for hardihood. He was A.P.'s quiet, lanky Vern Haugland, 34, who had been missing for 47 days. Of the 100 or so U.S. flyers who have turned up after forced landings in the steaming New Guinea interior, none had survived so long...
...Haugland flipped a coin with an Australian correspondent for a seat on an outgoing U.S. Army bomber. The A.P. man won. The plane used up its gasoline bucking a tropical storm; Haugland and the crew bailed out at 13,000 feet. Eight days later two of the crew reached Port Moresby. Within 20 days all but Haugland and the navigator had straggled...
...Haugland turned up at a remote mission station on the southeast coast. Emaciated, exhausted, delirious and sick with malaria, he was flown to a Port Moresby hospital, where physicians predicted his recovery. How he had got through one of the earth's most rugged regions without benefit of maps, food, weapons, or military preconditioning, no one could tell. Haugland was too sick...