Word: pierrefou
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...December 1923, with a crew of 50, the Dixmude left her base at Cuers-Pierrefou for a 72-hour flight over North Africa. On the third day, near Biskra, a storm struck her, disabled her wireless and motors, blew her across Tunis toward Sicily. Thence the Dixmude's trail sprawled octopus-like with conflicting "eyewitness" reports. First authentic trace occurred nine days later when Sicilian fishermen pulled in with their nets the body of du Plessis de Grenedan, the Dixmude's commander. No other body has been found. But tribesmen have insisted that on the sixth day after...
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