Coast Guard Rescues Bomber Pilot Pacific. Bailing out of a Liberator bomber over the South Pacific and rescued by Coast Guardsmen from an assault transport, Lieutenant Harvey D. Woodward (left), Army Air Force, tells Coast Guard Captain George E. McCabe, skipper of the transport, how his bomber had engaged in an attack upon the Jap stronghold of Truk, had fought an air battle with a swarm of Nip fighter planes and how he and nine others in the Liberator crew had been forced to take to their parachutes when their ship, its tanks leaking badly, was running out of fuel. The ten bailed out ov
Coast Guard Rescues Bomber Pilot Pacific. Bailing out of a Liberator bomber over the South Pacific and rescued by Coast Guardsmen from an assault transport, Lieutenant Harvey D. Woodward (left), Army Air Force, tells Coast Guard Captain George E. McCabe, skipper of the transport, how his bomber had engaged in an attack upon the Jap stronghold of Truk, had fought an air battle with a swarm of Nip fighter planes and how he and nine others in the Liberator crew had been forced to take to their parachutes when their ship, its tanks leaking badly, was running out of fuel. The ten bailed out over a convoy and all were picked up. Youthful Lieutenant Woodward, co-pilot of the bomber, lives at 1715 West 39th Street, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. Captain McCabe's home is in BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.
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