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Author Newcomb, then a Pacific war correspondent, now a Manhattan deskman for the A.P., has doggedly sleuthed the inside story by talking to survivors and Navy brass. With her SOS unheard, Indy would not have been missed until she became overdue at Leyte two days later. There the fact that she was overdue was overlooked for more than a day. It was not immediately reported because a loophole-riddled directive saying "Arrival reports shall not be made for combatant ships" was construed to mean that non-arrivals were not to be reported either...
...Sunday morning, Nov. 4, 1956, Budapest's Radio Kossuth broadcast a message ending with the words: "To every writer in the world ... to the intelligentsia of the world! We ask all of you for help and support . . .SOS!" Then, silence. The Hungarian revolt was being crushed, the writer-intellectuals of Hungary had spoken their last free words...
Into the blood-stinging wind he flew. He called his "mayday!" SOS and got an instant response, first from an Air Force base at Altus, Okla., 200 miles away, then from another airborne B-47. Altus gave Obie a compass heading to come in on. His panel lights grew dimmer, his eyes burned like hot lead. He could see the compass needle but not the numbers. He turned his plane to bring the needle toward the heading he wanted: his own field, the Strategic Air Command's Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, 150 miles away...
...Voice code for the standard telegraphic SOS, "Mayday" (from the French m'aidez -help me) was first approved for international use in radiotelephony at the International Radiotelegraphic Convention in Washington...
...ship was. abandoned in perfect order. In 35 minutes the Skaubryn was roaring from end to end like an acetylene torch, but every passenger and seaman was in the safety of lifeboats on the calm sea. As long as they were able, the two radio operators sent out SOS signals. The ship's master, Captain Alf Faeste, was the last man off, sliding down a rope with the log book. There was only one casualty: a German businessman died in his lifeboat of a heart attack...