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...Lieut. John A. Pritchard Jr. and Radioman Benjamin A. Bottoms rescued two Army airmen who had crashed on a Greenland icecap. Then they flew into a blinding snowstorm to bring back others. They were never seen again...
Routine submarine patrol completed, the broad-winged Catalina lumbered baseward across Greenland's icecap, through a formless, numbing nothingness of snow and ice and haze and white fingers of sun feeling through clouds. Suddenly there was the awful crunch of hull against frozen snow and ice. The pilots grabbed for the throttles. The plane rose for an instant, settled, slid 300 feet up the slope of centuries-old ice, turned to rest on her left wing tip, stopped dead. An alert radio operator flashed...
...First day, Jan. 27. . . . All attempts to move plane having failed, all men return to the plane and we make plans for the stay on the icecap. . . . Heaters not working. . . . Communications with the base are hot & heavy, with the put-put [gasoline engine to charge radio batteries] getting a good workout...
...Sixth day. . . . We tried to start an oil smudge fire for the rescue party which was out trying to find a possible way to get over the glacier and up on the icecap to us. . . . The oil is like tar. . . . Rescue party has little success...
...Thirteenth day. . . . The rescue party is coming in tomorrow. . . . Hear that Lieut. Dunlop has successfully landed on the icecap near Angmagssalik and taken the three remaining kids from the B-17 that went down the 8th of November-one of the kids had amputated both of his feet with a pocket knife to avoid gangrene-golly but we have been most fortunate...