File:U.S. Navy sailors Pastula, Aldrich, and Dixon and life raft in which they spent 34 days, 1942 (40691294660).jpg

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Description Lot-2058-6: Safety Equipment: Rubber Life Boats. Aftermath. Safely back at base with their now-historic rubber life-raft, which will be placed on exhibit at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. AOM2C Anthony J. Pastula; RM3 Gene D. Aldrich; and ACMM Harold F. Dixon. This picture was made weeks after their ordeal of 34 days in this tiny craft in which they sailed some 1200 miles after their Navy Bomber was forced down in the South Pacific in January 1942. Dixon received the Navy Cross, his companions’ commendations, for their exploit. Office of War Information Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2018/06/01).
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