"DITCHING AT SEA" WWII — Part 2 | The Archive Project

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Summary: (Edited footage on sea-rescue story.) MS, B-24 in flight over ocean. Engines going dead. CUs, various members of the crew. MS, wireless operator setting key at automatic SOS. Crew preparing for crash landing. Plane crashes into sea. Men inflate life rafts. Crew in raft using portable radio. Crew is spotted by Air-Sea rescue plane. The men in raft send up distress signal. The plane answers that they have cited them and will notify PT boat of exact location. PT boat locates crash victims and takes them aboard.

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities

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1939–1945

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2:52

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