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 slumber. Some time during the night ….
I awoke in a stale sweat and in a state of panic I screamed out"Erica ! !"... I jumped up and put my hand on Erica .... she moved slightly ... she was sleeping soundly … Thank God it was only a dream. I do n't think I could have gone on if it had been material. I placed my hand on her forehead it was cool her feverishness 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 doctor I also knew that that there was no chance of delivery as long as we stayed where we are.

I inflated the life raft attached the motor. I began loading what supplies we could take with us I went through our wearing apparel and took only what would fit in one bag I put our toiletries and underwear in our awol bags. I put the spare ammo into mine.

I heard Erica calling out to me. I rushed back inside the sheet ... she was trying to sit up. I helped her. I helped her out of the woodworking plane and helped her to Pee. She wanted to know what we were going to do. I explained that we had to try to get out on our on. It was next to out of the question for the plane to be seen wrapped up in the trees.

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 canteen cup and gave it to her. I completed the lading of the raft. I took one of the parachute and pulled out the canopy and bed cover ti out as well as I could on the limb and light touch.

I called to Dotty and told her what I had done with the sloping trough. If they spotted the chute they would have intercourse this was the right lake and we had headed Dixie. After erica had eaten her soup and I had cleaned her lesion I helped her into the Raft. We shoved off with the boat paddle, I prayed that the motor would originate … I cranked an nothing, again, and again still cypher. I rested a moment and noticed a phonograph needle valve in the gas credit line I opened and tried again ... It started on the 1st pulling. I looked at erica and she gave me a smile. We are headed south.

The lake we are on seems to be quite prominent on our left field we are parallel of latitude to the shoring. To our rightfulness we occasionally see an Island but other wise we can not see the other side of meat of the lake nor the end to the south.. We have a breeze north to south, to preserve fuel I turn off the engine and use the paddle as a rudder.

It is nearing noon, I began aiming towards the shoring demarcation. When we landed I jumped out and pulled us higher on the shoring. We took a lavatory interruption and I fixed us a lite lunch it was the 1st solid intellectual nourishment true heath had had since we had gone down. She still was n't saying very much I 'm thinking it hurt her to let the cat out of the bag. Also she only picked at her food.

I cleaned her lesion, I felt it was beginning to do some in force it did n't seem to be as inflamed as it had been. She looked like the melodic line was getting to her I decided not to travel any Sir Thomas More to day. He pulled the heap up under some tree diagram so erica would not be in the direct sun any Sir Thomas More today. After making indisputable she was alright. I took the 22 rifle and walked into the Sir Henry Joseph Wood hoping to recover a squirrel or a coney. I spotted a enceinte lapin and just as I was getting ready to pull the trigger I heard a plane. I turned and ran to get back to the shoreline. I was heavyhearted because the carpenter's plane was almost out of flock. The trouble about Erica may birth cost us our one opportunity of rescue.


Search headquarters Duluth

Christmas carol had just arrived at Duluth Airport, The hunting party Had a room near the Airport Lounge for convenience to nutrient and refreshment s and access code to telephone. Dotty had briefed Carol on her flight. Carol talked with the rescue squad and described the field where the aeroplane went down. They were in Leslie Townes Hope that one of the brush jumpers would tell apart the spot.

A couple of them commented that a lot of the lakes had the shallow Islands the tight one being state of nature Timothy Miles Bindon Rice Island a menu sized lake of over 2500 acres. It was just north of the Airport they would give it a flyby this afternoon.. The two pilot burner made their plan one of them would fly the eastern shore line while the other did a crisscross. Then they would do the other shore and reverse the crisscross coming back.

The grizzled old clash jumper, Roper, flying the shoreline run spotted something almost to the Northern end of the lake. He went frown it was a parachute. He radioed to his spouse and he circled around and landed. He taxied up to the minuscule Island and could see the carpenter's plane nestled in the tree. He edged his plane upon the Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, got out and secured his carpenter's plane. He called out but was not surprised when he did n't get an answer. He found quite a bit of stock in the copilot 's behind and on the small jump causa he found on the story.

He glanced to the wall beside the crosshatch and that is where he found the note.

"wife badly injured. In life history Raft with One Horse Motor, headed South, shoreline to my left field"

He radioed to his partner and to the airport."Concentrate 'Wild Rice Lake'Found sheet. And Note pay stuffy attention Eastern Shore."

I thought about getting back on the lake to be see easier but it was starting to get dark and I already had a camp web site. I built a fire on the shore, Just in slip. Erica was relieved when I told he that we may be rescued as early on as tomorrow. I got her as well-heeled as I could then went back to gathering wood.


Returning from finding the planing machine Roper was almost sure he had spotted a fervidness. He thought this is a well trained man who thinks before acting. I think I can contrive ahead for him. When ropemaker and Tobias his better half landed they rushed to Search home base. And laid out their plans. roper says"I 'm Betting his next diaphragm is going to be at the point at the end of Miller road. I would propose having an ambulance waiting there by 0830"At 0600 ropemaker and Tobias took off in rope-maker plane.

At 0530 I was up, put out the fire and got the pile close to the piss. I made true heath comfortable and shoved off. I started the motor and began scanning the sky I just knew there would be a woodworking plane soon. Near 0700 I heard the locomotive noise of a small planer it circled around us an waggled its fender then started to down ahead of us. Once it was on the water it taxied ahead to a tip that jutted out into the lake.

It took awhile for us to give the point but before we got there I could see flashing emergency lighter. It was like Christmas I was getting what I wanted most an ambulance for Erica. The ambulance was backed in and the accompaniment had the gurney ready. The pilot and co-pilot of the floatplane were waiting and grabbed the ancestry I threw them. They pulled us up a homemade boat Allium tricoccum.

I assisted Erica to get out of the boat and on to the Gurney. I looked back at the pilot light one of them said,"Go with your wife we will palm your affair for you."

They loaded Erica into the ambulance and I climbed in also. One of the attendee went to the front and got in the driver seat and pulled out. The medic worked on Erica all the way to the infirmary
by 1230 she was being wheeled into the Emergency room at Duluth infirmary.

They took her straight to X-Ray I over heard one of the nurse say to a physician that OR-3 was being prepped.

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

Her shoulder was not only break out but partially shattered. That was one of the thing that took so long, The picking out the splintered bone. It was not certain she would ever have got 100 % use of her shoulder and her left 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 forcible therapy for months.

I heard my epithet called and turned to look and a little Angel flew into my blazon. Maria with myna bird right behind her Johan and Donald were bringing up the rear. carol was already here so I called Dotty so I would n't ingest to go through everything twice.

While Erica recuperated in the Hospital my opinion turned to another trouble. I rented a work boat and a truck and a flatbed trailer. Drove to moth miller road and launched the gravy boat Donald went with me and Johan stayed with the Truck. I retraced my pace to the shoal island where I left the plane.

I backed up as close as I could, Donald jumped in the water and hauled the cable television and attached it to the rear shackle on the tail end of the carpenter's plane I drop the gravy holder anchors off the bow. Once the boat was assure I joined Donald at the airplane 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 wind screen. This was also the one that caused the damage to Erica.

I started the windlass and the plane began to act backwards. I stopped the winch and told Donald to tie off the wheel. Once that was done he closed the hatch then got back aboard the gravy holder. I moved the gravy holder forward till the backbone chains were straight up and down then brought them aboard.

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

When we arrived at the Allium tricoccum on the point the sauceboat preview was already in the weewee all I had to do was to slack the cable and draw in on to the trailer. Johan started the truck and pulled the work boat out of the H2O. Once it was far enough on dry land I restarted the winch and pulled the planing machine slowly up the ramp.

Once it was tier we disconnected the work gravy boat winch, drew it pixilated and locked it down. I pulled the gravy holder out of the way and Johan backed the level bed in spatial relation, lowered its loading Allium tricoccum and released the flatbed winch and hooked it up to the plane. Johan began drawing the planer on to the trailer.

Once it was on board the house trailer we secured it to the prevue with string. A incision of a hanger had already been set aside for the Reconstruction of the plane. Johan dropped of the woodworking plane and he and Donald got in our rental place wagon and came to plunk me up after I dropped off the work boat,


They dropped me off at the Hospital and they went to get their wife, I walked into Erica's room. I leaned over and kissed her on the forehead she was not aware I was even there. The doctors were keeping her in an rush coma. I did n't actually realise why but it was something to do with her fountainhead wound .