Coast Guard Helicopter Comes Down With One of 11 Fliers Rescued from Labrador A Coast Guard helicopter drops gently to the surface of a frozen-over lake near a remote weather station with one of 11 Canadian plane crash victims rescued by the Coast Guard craft from the bleak wilderness of North Labrador. The helicopter is landed on a strip of canvas to prevent the floats from freezing to the ice. With Coast Guard Lieut. August Kleisch, of Cincinnati, Ohio, as pilot, the helicopter took aboard the marooned fliers by means of a rope ladder and moved them, one at a time, to the weathe
Coast Guard Helicopter Comes Down With One of 11 Fliers Rescued from Labrador A Coast Guard helicopter drops gently to the surface of a frozen-over lake near a remote weather station with one of 11 Canadian plane crash victims rescued by the Coast Guard craft from the bleak wilderness of North Labrador. The helicopter is landed on a strip of canvas to prevent the floats from freezing to the ice. With Coast Guard Lieut. August Kleisch, of Cincinnati, Ohio, as pilot, the helicopter took aboard the marooned fliers by means of a rope ladder and moved them, one at a time, to the weather station 32 miles away.
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Keywords: 17-a2-156, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg
