Word: planes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flares. Splashing through cold, tumbling waves, 18 of the plane's 20 passengers safely reached two life rafts they had managed to launch before the aircraft sank. But two enlisted men disappeared before their companions could reach them through the swells. Crowded aboard two rafts built to hold only six men apiece, the survivors settled down to the bruising, salt-sprayed hours of waiting...
...that the airmen soon had to cut their heavy G.I. shoes away. Rain squalls swept past in raw, chilling gusts. Huddled painfully together, their knees jammed under their chins, the men in the rafts rode out the first night and second day. Now & then they heard search planes passing in one of the greatest air-rescue operations in peacetime history, but the aircraft were hampered by a lowering ceiling and the rafts were not sighted. It was not until after dusk of the second day that a search-plane crew spotted two red flares set off by the castaways...
Sunapce residents said early this morning that a plane flying up from the direction of Newport. N.H., had crashed near the top of Bald Mountain. They described the sound of the engine as more like a commercial plane than a light plane. This description might tally with Moses 'plane, the CAA said...
John M. Moses '53, of Thayer Hall, was reported long overdue early this morning on his private plane flight from Bridgeport, Conn. to Boston. All night searching parties in both Sunapee N.H., and Buzzards Bay, Mass., were hunting for planes which had reportedly crashed in each area, but at 3 a.m. neither place reported any success...
...Harvard last night, Moses' roommate, Gaston H. Palacious '53 said that he had accompanied Moses to Yale in the plane but had returned immediately after the game by train. Palacious said Moses' plane was equipped with complete radio instruments and safety equipment, including a parachute...