Word: planed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...singular stroke of luck. Living aboard his trim 58-ft. schooner yacht Aafje in San Pedro harbor was a lighthearted, thin-haired sportsman named Dwight L. Faulding. The owner of a Santa Barbara photo shop and hotel, Dwight Faulding was once rich and foolish enough to have bought a plane which he took up without a single flying lesson, crashed spang into a Santa Barbara street...
Nine days later a Navy plane, cruising south of its San Diego base, reported a small yacht wallowing in heavy seas, an SOS crudely painted on its torn mainsail. Out went Coast Guard amphibians and the cutter Perseus, which was soon chugging back the 180 miles to San Pedro with the Aafje in tow. The message also brought out a cutter with Special Agent W. H. Osborne of the Department of Justice on board. For the story the, six half-starved survivors of the Aafje had to tell involved, if not the piracy Jean Dee Jarnette had dreamed...
...closed incident. But to the U. S. public, which knew that two newsreel cameramen were among the Panay survivors, all the evidence was not officially in until the newsreels arrived. Last week, after a record ten-day rush from Shanghai via U. S. destroyer, China Clipper and cross-country plane. Movietone and Universal reels gave the last word on what happened to the Panay...
...undramatic by Hollywood and headline standards, important by history's. Limited by the necessity of keeping under cover, Mayell's camera watches bombs landing around the nearby Standard Oil boats, sees a fallen Panay seaman being hauled to a hatchway. Alley's lens catches a Japanese plane diving to attack, while squinting gunners, one trouserless (see cut), try to stem the attack with antiquated 1917 Lewis machine guns. Both cameras show the crew running to emergency posts at the start of the raid, both film the tattered, bloody sailors leaving the ship, peer into the gaping holes...
Sitting under the overturned plane, which was only good "to hang my hammock on," Perry dreamed of the food at the dinner while three other passengers wandered off in search of water and never came back, according to a letter from him recently published in the Alumni Bulletin...