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DIARY ...
The crews ot tne inn aar s
“crash boats” which operate in
the treacherous currents of the
Aleutians will try anything—in j
any kind of a storm—it was
shown in a repoit recently re- j
ceived from one of the boats. [
The report was titled “Mission
Unsuccessful”! and involved one
soldier from Kodiak.
Although most of the crew
were hardy Alaskans with long
experience in these most difficult
waters in the world they could
n’t make it to a lonely outpost
to pick up a critically ill soldier
and return him to an Aleutian
base hospital.
The crew made three tries to
get the sick soldier on board the
rescue vessel. Three Alaskans,
Stafi Sgt Willard C. Nadeau of
Kodiak, Staff Sgt. Frank Thor-,
son of Naknek and Pvt. Charles
E Hausou of Squaw Harbor
volunteered to take a small dory
in through the pounding surf
with the medical officer, who ar
rived safely, if a little wet, and
rendered emergency aid
During two succeeding days
of ferocious weather, they made
repeated efforts to get the pa
tient and the med.cal < fficer
back to the vessel. Twice the
fiendish surf whipped the dory
end over end. throwing patient,
medical officer and crew in all
directions.
Finally, when the patient re
fused to try again, the medical •
officer left medicine and instruc
tions, explaining they would be
back when the seas quieted
down, if they ever did.
“And that’s the reason it was
written ‘Mission Unsuccessful,’
the reporting officer said.
The Emergency Rescue Boat
Squadron, which operates along
3000 miles of shoreline from
Southeastern Alaska to Attu,
was originally a quartermaster
unit, trained by the Coast
Guard and is now staffed by
AAF personnel and under the
command of the 11th AAF Ser
vice Command. This squadron
has more than paid its way dur
ing the past year by pulling
several two-motored planes out
of the North Pacific and Bering
See. Also during the period,
they have saved several lives
outright and assisted in over a
hundred other emergency cases.
We heard a man complaining i
the other day at the price he
had paid for a bottle of drinking
whisky at some $4 and some
odd cents.
Shucks, that's nothing. We
know where there’s an pmptv
whisky bottle for sale at $10.50.
It’s an old story when Alas
kans go Outside to live and re
turn a few months later, but
Vincent Harris, a resident of
Cordova for 20 years, did one
better.
(continued on page 5)
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