The Way of the War ... After the War II


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I covered her and watched over her again. I lay beside her and drifted off to sleep. Some sentence during the night ….
I awoke in a cold sweat and in a state of matter of panic I screamed out"Erica ! !"... I jumped up and put my hired hand on Erica .... she moved slightly ... she was sleeping soundly … Thank God it was only a aspiration. I do n't think I could have gone on if it had been real number. I placed my handwriting on her frontal bone it was cool her fever had broken.

I checked the C-Rats and found another that had soup in it and lay it aside for when she wakes up. I knew I had to get her to a Dr. I also knew that that there was no fortune of rescue as long as we stayed where we are.

I inflated the animation raft attached the motor. I began loading what supplies we could take with us I went through our apparel and took only what would fit in one bag I put our toiletry and underclothes in our awol base. I put the spare ammo into mine.

I heard erica calling out to me. I rushed back inside the plane ... she was trying to sit up. I helped her. I helped her out of the sheet and helped her to Pee. She wanted to make love what we were going to do. I explained that we had to try to get out on our on. It was succeeding to inconceivable for the plane to be seen wrapped up in the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree.

I took one of the seats I had removed and sat it out side and helped her to sit down in it. When the soup was warm I poured it in to a mobile canteen cup and gave it to her. I completed the payload of the raft. I took one of the parachutes and pulled out the canopy and bedcover ti out as well as I could on the arm and light touch.

I called to Dotty and told her what I had done with the chute. If they spotted the chute they would know this was the right lake and we had headed South. After Erica had eaten her soup and I had cleaned her wound I helped her into the Raft. We shoved off with the paddle, I prayed that the motor would start … I cranked an nothing, again, and again still nothing. I rested a minute and noticed a phonograph needle valve in the gas lineage I opened and tried again ... It started on the 1st clout. I looked at erica and she gave me a smile. We are headed south.

The lake we are on seems to be quite large on our leftfield we are parallel to the shore. To our right we occasionally see an Island but early Wise we can not see the other English of the lake nor the end to the south.. We have a air north to south, to conserve fuel I turn off the engine and use the boat paddle as a rudder.

It is nearing noon, I began aiming towards the shore stock. When we landed I jumped out and pulled us mellow on the shore. We took a bath faulting and I fixed us a lite lunch it was the 1st solid food true heath had had since we had gone down. She still was n't saying very much I 'm thinking it hurt her to babble out. Also she only picked at her food.

I cleaned her combat injury, I felt it was beginning to do some skilful it did n't seem to be as inflamed as it had been. She looked like the stress was getting to her I decided not to journey any Sir Thomas More to day. He pulled the pot up under some trees so Erica would not be in the channelise sun any Thomas More today. After making sure she was alright. I took the 22 rifle and walked into the woods hoping to find a squirrel or a coney. I spotted a large lapin and just as I was getting ready to overstretch the trigger I heard a plane. I turned and ran to get back to the shoreline. I was heavyhearted because the plane was almost out of sight. The worry about true heath may have cost us our one chance of rescue.


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carol had just arrived at Duluth Airport, The Search political party Had a room near the Airport Lounge for convenience to food and refreshment s and access to phone. Dotty had briefed Carol on her flight. Christmas carol talked with the deliverance squad and described the area where the planing machine went down. They were in hopes that one of the brush jump shot would recognize the spot.

A mates of them commented that a lot of the lakes had the shallow Islands the closelipped one being Wild Rice Island a transportation sized lake of over 2500 Akko. It was just north of the Airport they would give it a flyby this afternoon.. The two pilots made their architectural plan one of them would fly the eastern shore phone line while the early did a crisscross. Then they would do the other shore and reverse the crisscross coming back.

The grizzle old brush jumper, ropemaker, flying the shoreline run spotted something almost to the Northern end of the lake. He went lower it was a chute. He radioed to his cooperator and he circled around and landed. He taxied up to the little Island and could see the plane nestled in the tree diagram. He edged his airplane upon the sand, got out and secured his sheet. He called out but was not surprised when he did n't get an answer. He found quite a bit of pedigree in the co-pilot 's seat and on the belittled jumping suit of clothes he found on the floor.

He glanced to the wall beside the hatch and that is where he found the greenback.

"married woman badly injured. In aliveness Raft with One cavalry Motor, headed southward, shoreline to my left"

He radioed to his collaborator and to the drome."concentrate 'Wild Elmer Rice Lake'Found Plane. And eminence pay close up attention Eastern Shore."

I thought about getting back on the lake to be see easier but it was starting to get drear and I already had a encampment site. I built a flack on the shore, Just in showcase. Erica was relieved when I told he that we may be rescued as early as tomorrow. I got her as comfortable as I could then went back to gathering wood.


Returning from finding the woodworking plane ropemaker was almost sure he had spotted a flame. He thought this is a well train man who thinks before acting. I think I can contrive ahead for him. When Roper and Tobias his partner landed they rushed to hunt headquarters. And laid out their plans. Roper says"I 'm Betting his future stop is going to be at the period at the end of Miller road. I would suggest having an ambulance waiting there by 0830"At 0600 rope-maker and Tobias took off in ropemaker plane.

At 0530 I was up, put out the firing and got the hatful close to the water. I made Erica comfortable and shoved off. I started the motor and began scanning the sky I just knew there would be a plane soon. Near 0700 I heard the engine noise of a small sheet it circled around us an waggled its offstage then started to land ahead of us. Once it was on the water it taxied ahead to a stage that jutted out into the lake.

It took awhile for us to hand the point but before we got there I could see wink emergency lights. It was like Christmastide I was getting what I wanted most an ambulance for Erica. The ambulance was backed in and the attendant had the gurney ready. The buffer and co-pilot of the pontoon plane were waiting and grabbed the line I threw them. They pulled us up a homemade gravy boat ramp.

I assisted erica to get out of the gravy boat and on to the Gurney. I looked back at the pilots one of them said,"Go with your Wife we will plow your thing for you."

They loaded Erica into the ambulance and I climbed in also. One of the concomitant went to the movement and got in the device driver tail end and pulled out. The medic worked on Erica all the way to the infirmary
by 1230 she was being wheeled into the emergency way at Duluth Hospital.

They took her full-strength to roentgen ray I over heard one of the Nurses say to a doctor that OR-3 was being prepped.

Eight hours later they brought her to her room, after 5 hours in OR and 3 in recuperation. The Doctor said that if I had n't did all the things I did she would not have made. Starting with the brain wound if I had not cleaned it as well as I did ( which was n't really expert enough ) and that was only about 75 % successful. Her skull had a hairline crack

Her articulatio humeri was not only interrupt but partially shattered. That was one of the thing that took so long, The picking out the break away bone. It was not sealed she would ever have 100 % use of her shoulder and her go forth arm. If I had not immobilized the arm and shoulder she might have lost it. They also checked on the baby and they were fine.

According to the Doctor she will be in the Hospital for at least 5 weeks then physical therapy for months.

I heard my figure called and turned to look and a little holy man flew into my arms. Calophyllum longifolium with Mina right behind her Johan and Donald were bringing up the butt. carol was already here so I called Dotty so I would n't accept to go through everything twice.

While Erica recuperated in the Hospital my thoughts turned to another problem. I rented a work gravy holder and a truck and a flatbed drone. swarm to Henry Valentine Miller road and launched the boat Donald went with me and Johan stayed with the Truck. I retraced my measure to the shallow island where I left the plane.

I backed up as close as I could, Donald jumped in the water and hauled the cable and attached it to the rear shackle on the tail of the planing machine I drop the boat anchors off the bow. Once the boat was secure I joined Donald at the plane we began the removal of the debris around the airplane path. We had brought a chain saw with us and it was needed to cut off the limb that penetrated the confidential information screen. This was also the one that caused the damage to Erica.

I started the winch and the airplane began to move backwards. I stopped the windlass and told Donald to tie off the bicycle. Once that was done he closed the crosshatch then got back aboard the boat. I moved the gravy boat forward till the anchor chain were straight up and down then brought them aboard.

The pontoons were entering the water we checked them out to insure that they had no escape. They seemed to be fine. We moved on a bit faster me watching ahead and Donald watching the plane. Our only regrets was the annex were so damaged they could not be salvaged.

When we arrived at the incline on the point the sauceboat prevue was already in the water system all I had to do was to slack the cablegram and pull on to the lagger. Johan started the truck and pulled the work boat out of the urine. Once it was far enough on land I restarted the windlass and pulled the carpenter's plane slowly up the ramp.

Once it was level we disconnected the work boats winch, drew it tight and locked it down. I pulled the boat out of the way and Johan backed the matted bed in view, lowered its load ramp and released the flat winch and hooked it up to the planer. Johan began drawing the plane on to the trailer.

Once it was on board the trailer we secured it to the dawdler with chains. A section of a hanger had already been set aside for the Reconstruction of the carpenter's plane. Johan dropped of the woodworking plane and he and Donald got in our rental station Big Dipper and came to pick me up after I dropped off the workplace gravy boat,


They dropped me off at the Hospital and they went to get their wives, I walked into erica's elbow room. I leaned over and kissed her on the frontal bone she was not aware I was even there. The Dr. were keeping her in an induced coma. I did n't actually understand why but it was something to do with her headland wound .