File:Lot-2058-12 (40691294320).jpg

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Description Lot-2058-12: Safety Equipment: Rubber Life Boats. Three Pacific Fleet airman who survived the ordeal of 34 days in this tiny rubber life-boat are shown shortly after they made safe landfall on a South Pacific Island to which they navigated after their bomber was forced down in January 1942. Left to right: AMO2C Anthony J. Pastula; ACMM Harold F. Dixon, pilot; and RM3 Gene D. Aldrich. This picture was made after they had been “fattened-up”. Office of War Information Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2018/06/01).
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Author National Museum of the U.S. Navy

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Photograph Curator at https://flickr.com/photos/127906254@N06/40691294320 (archive). It was reviewed on 11 July 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

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