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...tank to which three other men were clinging; how they struggled to keep the open spout of the tank above water; how all hands shouted in unison to attract the lookout aboard the tanker Phoebus; how Machinist's Mate Rutan weakened and slipped into the sea and Radioman Copeland held on only to die later, while Deal and Metalsmith Moody S. Erwin were rescued. The Committee heard; but their minds dwelt on those snapping girders-an indication that the mighty Akron had buckled in the twisting storm before striking the water. And they thought back to a year...
...rescued, steamed with them to Brooklyn Navy Yard. They were Lieut.-Commander Wiley, veteran of the Shenandoah, who looks remarkably like Herbert Hoover; Bos'n's Mate R. E. Deal, a survivor of the Shenandoah crash; Machinist's Mate M. E. Erwin and Radioman Robert E. Copeland. When the Tucker had them aboard its flag came down to half mast. Radioman Copeland had died of injuries or submersion...
...visibility. Snow so loaded the plane that the speed was cut to 60 m.p.h. Unable to climb above the storm, Pilot Hutchinson dropped to 50 ft. With windshields caked with snow, he dodged icebergs and cliffs until forced to make a practically blind landing. Drift ice punctured a pontoon. Radioman Gerald Altfilisch sent out SOS calls and their position, soon received a reply from Angmagsalik that the Scotch trawler Lord Talbot would rescue them within two hours. Breaking waves quickly put the set out of commission. Pilot Hutchinson taxied the crippled ship to shore where the family and crew salvaged...
Excepting the DO-X, the Hutchinson party was the largest yet to attempt a transatlantic crossing in one plane. Besides the four Hutchinsons there were a navigator, radioman, mechanic, and an RKO-Van Buren cinematographer. On their take-off from Floyd Bennett Field. N. Y., the Hutchinsons?George, 30, Blanche, 28, Kathryn, 8, Janet Lee, 6?were uniformed in brown sport coats, buff polo shirts, suede riding breeches. So were the dolls, Kathryn's Patsy Joan and Janet's Patsy...
...weather report and to ask "what them other squareheads are doing?" The "other squareheads" had taken off from Floyd Bennett Field five hours earlier. They were Thor Solberg, 38, who was a motorcycle racer in Norway before coming eight years ago to the U. S.: and Petersen, 35, able radioman who accompanied Amundsen to the North Pole, Byrd to the Antarctic. They too were bound for Oslo. Their plane had been provided largely by Shoeman F. L. Emerson, in whose honor it was named Enna Jettick. Enna Jettick did not get as far as Harbor Grace. In a snowstorm near...