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...slid over the side of our raft and held on," said the second officer. "We heard a voice saying in perfect English: 'Come alongside boys.' After a while somebody said in German: 'There's nobody on this one.' Then the raider disappeared. Later we found lifeboats with their oars shipped, indicating that some of the men had accepted the invitation to go alongside and had been taken prisoner aboard the raider...
...RAFT-Robert Trumbull-Holt...
...story is history-the story of the three-man crew of a Navy plane who were forced down in the Pacific and spent 34 days on a rubber raft (TIME, March...
...Youngest of the three was Gene Aldrich, 22-year-old Missouri farm boy. He was a radioman and gunner, with only 15 months' experience in the Navy. He had been a cook in a CCC camp, and as the days of torment and hunger closed down on the raft, Gene would regularly "cook meals" for his mates. When the sun rose on three empty bellies, Gene liked to recall shooting squirrels for breakfast with his father . . . "It seems there are a lot of squirrels in Missouri," says Dixon dryly...
...Officer Harold F. Dixon was the leader of the three. His story is an astonishing self-portrait. Dixon has no humble streak in his nature. At 41, "a tough old chief petty officer" with 22 years service behind him, he knew precisely what he meant to do with that raft. "I was determined to sail it if I could. And I maintain that I did sail it. I worked like the devil to sail it, and I resent anyone's saying we 'drifted.' " Nor did he ever doubt who was boss. "Naturally I was in command...