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Description A U.S. Navy Sikorsky HO4S hovers over a mailbag, waiting for an approaching whaleboat to retrieve it. Both were from the aircraft carrier USS Boxer (CVS-21) which responded to a distress call of a U.S. Air Force Douglas C-124C Globemaster II (s/n 50-107) which experienced engine trouble during a flight from Hawaii (USA) to Wake Island. The plane crashed 320 km north-east off Johnston Island. Twelve hours later, the HO4S from Boxer could rescue three men of the crew of seven. The airmen had been clinging to a wooden box.
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Source U.S. Navy All Hands magazine September 1958, p. 27.
Author USN
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