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...this, the Japanese stopped shooting. Lieut. Matson hit the water, inflated his rubber raft, climbed aboard it, covered himself with his parachute, went to sleep. An hour later, a crash boat rescued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Safe at Last | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...play football for us this coming season and it should be a real show to see him throw those passes for Navy like he did for B. C. When he made the All-American ... I suppose I still could tune in on the games while out on a life raft...

Author: By M. O. P., | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

RAYMOND MAZALEWSKI got quite a thrill out of his Hampton Beach sunburn when the corpsman told the new V-12s coming into sick bay that he had been out on a raft in the Atlantic for 10 days. . . the will have to dim those neon lights in the Oxford or more of us will get burnt...

Author: By Melvin Parnell, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/6/1943 | See Source »

With one packet of the Consolazio-Spealman chemicals, a man in a life raft can produce a quart of drinking water in half an hour. The Navy announced that the device was ready to go into mass production as standard life-raft equipment as soon as it passes final tests by Army & Navy doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drop to Drink | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...first the destroyer saw nothing more than the flotsam of defeat-empty gasoline cans, a soldier's kitbag floating, part of the landing gear of a German transport plane held up by a bloated balloon tire, a rubber raft on which a dead Nazi airman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE MEDITERRANEAN: This Waterway | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

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