Word: kastner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather after a hundred miles or so, but in the first hour of flight both radio and magnetic compasses went haywire. The plane, far off its course for The Pas, flew in a great parabola through icing conditions. Finally, Chief Petty Officer Jack Kastner came down on a strip of muskeg between two lakes. Not a man was scratched...
...boiled a ground squirrel shot by Kastner. It made one meal. Then Scalise found mushrooms and boiled them. Custer was sure they were poisonous, but Scalise dropped a silver coin into the brew and when it stayed shiny, instead of turning black, Custer was satisfied. Scalise shot a porcupine. Says Custer: "It was a lovely dish-we had it for days...