Word: rafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made a crash dive. Blindfolded, they were marched toward the torpedo room, where German seamen sponged off the oil coating the rescued men. They were given tea and black bread, questioned by the commander in perfect English. Two hours later the submarine surfaced, put the two seamen aboard a raft with water, hardtack and instructions to head south...
...Pilot-Officer of the RCAF, Mahn was engaged in "air operations overseas." When his bomber was forced down over the Dutch coast Mahn and two others of the crew of four managed to climb aboard their raft. That night one man died, and the other a few days later. Sustained only by rain water and raw fish, Mahn managed to survive the bitter cold of the North Sea with only severely frozen feet, until picked up by a British torpedo boat...
...jumped overboard, swam around patches of blazing oil, cried out to a passing mine sweeper, was hauled aboard. Next day the mine sweeper was attacked and burned by Italian torpedo boats whose fire killed all the mine sweeper's gunners. Again Downes went overside, swam to a raft, from which he was rescued by a British torpedo plane and taken to Matr...
...Boat. While on reconnaissance patrol a few weeks before, they said, 200 miles off the coast of England, they were attacked by six German fighters. After shooting down two Germans, their plane, radio dead, was forced into the sea. They spent the next 16 days on a rubber life raft, stretching out five days' emergency rations by mixing canned milk and water together. Finally they saw a vessel, a U.S. ship which was part of a convoy. The boy with the empty pipe said he jerked a thumb at the boat's crew, asked ''Ride, buddy...
Manoel Olimpio Meira, called "Jacare" (Alligator) after his natal village, became the modern hero of Brazil's jangadeiros, half-starved "sharecropping" fishermen, last autumn when he and three mates sailed their flimsy jangada (sailing raft) Sao Pedro on a 61-day, 1,650-mile trip to Rio de Janeiro to tell President Vargas the fishermen's troubles. From Getulio Vargas they won full union rights-and pensions. Their story (TIME, Dec. 8) so kindled Cinema Director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)that he flew Jacare and his mates to Rio again, to enact their feat for his camera...