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 fourth dimension during the dark ….
I awoke in a frigidness sweat and in a commonwealth of affright 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 pipe dream. I do n't think I could ingest gone on if it had been real. I placed my script on her forehead it was nerveless 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 probability of rescue as long as we stayed where we are.

I inflated the life history raft attached the motor. I began loading what supplies we could take with us I went through our clothes and took only what would fit in one bag I put our toiletry 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 aeroplane ... she was trying to sit up. I helped her. I helped her out of the 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 impossible for the plane to be seen wrapped up in the trees.

I took one of the seats I had removed and sat it out face 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 loading of the spate. I took one of the parachute and pulled out the canopy and spread ti out as well as I could on the branch and brush.

I called to Dotty and told her what I had done with the chute. If they spotted the chute they would get it on 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 bulge … I cranked an nix, again, and again still cipher. I rested a minute and noticed a needle valve in the gas bloodline I opened and tried again ... It started on the 1st puff. I looked at Erica and she gave me a smiling. We are headed south.

The lake we are on seems to be quite large on our left we are analogue to the shore. To our rightfield we occasionally see an Island but other wise we can not see the other side of the lake nor the end to the south.. We have a gentle wind North to south, to conserve fuel I turn off the locomotive and use the paddle as a rudder.

It is nearing noon, I began aiming towards the shore line. When we landed I jumped out and pulled us high-pitched on the shore. We took a lavatory rupture and I fixed us a calorie-free lunch it was the 1st solid food Erica 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 wound, I felt it was beginning to do some in force it did n't appear to be as inflamed as it had been. She looked like the stock was getting to her I decided not to travel any more than to day. He pulled the raft up under some trees so Erica would not be in the direct sun any Sir Thomas More today. After making trusted she was alright. I took the 22 rifle and walked into the Mrs. Henry Wood hoping to find a squirrel or a rabbit. I spotted a large Rabbit and just as I was getting make to draw in the trigger I heard a planing machine. I turned and ran to get back to the shoreline. I was heavyhearted because the plane was almost out of sight. The worry about Erica may accept cost us our one chance of rescue.


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Carol had just arrived at Duluth airdrome, The Search party Had a way near the Airport lounge for gadget to food and refreshment s and access to telephony. Dotty had briefed carol on her trajectory. Carol talked with the rescue squad and described the country where the plane went down. They were in hopes that one of the brush jump shot would recognize the spot.

A couple of them commented that a lot of the lakes had the shallow Islands the closest one being wild rice Island a fare sized lake of over 2500 estate. It was just north of the airdrome they would give it a flyby this afternoon.. The two pilots made their programme one of them would fly the easterly shore line while the other did a crisscross. Then they would do the other shore and repeal the crisscross coming back.

The grizzle old brush jumper, Roper, flying the shoreline run spotted something almost to the Northern end of the lake. He went gloomy it was a chute. He radioed to his better half and he circled around and landed. He taxied up to the small Island and could see the plane nestled in the trees. He edged his sheet upon the sand, got out and secured his plane. He called out but was not surprised when he did n't get an answer. He found quite a bit of origin in the co-pilot 's hindquarters and on the small jump lawsuit he found on the floor.

He glanced to the paries beside the hatching and that is where he found the Federal Reserve note.

"married woman badly injured. In Life Raft with One Equus caballus Motor, headed Confederate States, shoreline to my impart"

He radioed to his spouse and to the aerodrome."dressed ore 'Wild Rice Lake'Found sheet. And Note pay close aid Eastern Shore."

I thought about getting back on the lake to be see light but it was starting to get nighttime and I already had a camp site. I built a fervidness on the shoring, Just in shell. 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 plane Roper was almost sure he had spotted a fervor. He thought this is a well educate man who thinks before acting. I think I can be after ahead for him. When Roper and Tobias his partner landed they rushed to Search headquarters. And laid out their design. rope-maker says"I 'm Betting his next layover is going to be at the point at the end of Henry Miller road. I would paint a picture having an ambulance waiting there by 0830"At 0600 Roper and Tobias took off in Ropers plane.

At 0530 I was up, put out the fire and got the raft close to the weewee. 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 stochasticity of a small sheet it circled around us an waggled its wings then started to set ashore ahead of us. Once it was on the urine it taxied ahead to a point that jutted out into the lake.

It took awhile for us to make the decimal point but before we got there I could see winkle emergency brake luminousness. It was like Christmas I was getting what I wanted most an ambulance for Erica. The ambulance was backed in and the attendants had the gurney ready. The pilot and copilot of the floatplane were waiting and grabbed the line I threw them. They pulled us up a homemade gravy holder ramp.

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

They loaded Erica into the ambulance and I climbed in also. One of the accompaniment went to the figurehead and got in the device driver buttocks and pulled out. The medick worked on Erica all the way to the infirmary
by 1230 she was being wheeled into the Emergency room at Duluth hospital.

They took her straight to X-ray photograph I over heard one of the Nurses say to a doctor that OR-3 was being prepped.

Eight hr later they brought her to her way, after 5 60 minutes in operating theater 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 good enough ) and that was only about 75 % successful. Her skull had a hairline crack

Her shoulder was not only demote but partially shattered. That was one of the things that took so long, The picking out the break away bone. It was not certain she would ever have 100 % use of her shoulder and her pull up stakes arm. If I had not immobilized the arm and articulatio humeri she might hold lost it. They also checked on the child and they were fine.

According to the Doctor of the Church she will be in the Hospital for at to the lowest degree 5 workweek then forcible therapy for months.

I heard my gens called and turned to depend and a little angel flew into my arms. Maria with Mina right behind her Johan and Donald were bringing up the rear. Christmas carol was already here so I called Dotty so I would n't have to go through everything twice.

While Erica recuperated in the hospital my thoughts turned to another job. I rented a body of work gravy holder and a truck and a flatbed trailer. Drove to Henry Valentine Miller road and launched the boat Donald went with me and Johan stayed with the Truck. I retraced my steps to the shallow island where I left the plane.

I backed up as close as I could, Donald jumped in the urine and hauled the cable and attached it to the nates trammel on the tail of the airplane I drop the sauceboat anchors off the bow. Once the gravy holder was unafraid I joined Donald at the sheet we began the remotion of the rubble around the planes track. We had brought a chain saw with us and it was needed to cut off the tree branch that penetrated the wind screen. This was also the one that caused the damage to Erica.

I started the windlass and the woodworking plane began to motivate 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 boat. I moved the boat forward till the anchor range of mountains were straight up and down then brought them aboard.

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

When we arrived at the ramp on the point the boat trailer was already in the water supply all I had to do was to slow the cable and pull on to the trailer. Johan started the hand truck and pulled the work boat out of the water. Once it was far enough on land I restarted the windlass and pulled the plane slowly up the ramp.

Once it was floor we disconnected the oeuvre sauceboat winch, drew it nasty and locked it down. I pulled the boat out of the way and Johan backed the flat bed in position, lowered its lading ramp and released the flat windlass and hooked it up to the plane. Johan began drawing the planer on to the trailer.

Once it was on plank the lagger we secured it to the trailer with Chain. A section of a hanger had already been set aside for the Reconstruction Period of the plane. Johan dropped of the plane and he and Donald got in our rental station wagon and came to clean me up after I dropped off the work boat,


They dropped me off at the Hospital and they went to get their wives, 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 induced coma. I did n't actually understand why but it was something to do with her foreland injury .