Rescue off the Dutch coast.

Rescue off the Dutch coast. During a recent attack of German shipping in the Dutch harbor regions, a Bombfighter piloted by Warrent Officer Douglas Mann of Christ Church, New Zealand, and Navigator Flight Sergeant Don Kennedy of Soethport, Lancaster, was hit by anti-aircraft fire. Both airman were forced to land in the North Sea a shortdistance from the Dutch Coast with only a small one-man dinghy. In this they survived for five days until they were spotted by an Allied aircraft which dropped them a larger rubber dinghy. With their few cans of fresh drinking water and their supply of concentrated food pills steadily diminishing, the two battled with the wind and rain and the bitter cold of the North Sea for three more days. On the eight day, a search party of four Eight U.S. Air Force Thunderbolts sighted them and later escorted a RAF high speed rescue launch back to pick them up only 18 miles from the coast of Holland. Flight Officer Ross, skipper of the Royal AIR Force rescue launch, loosens Flight Sergeant Don Kennedy's clithing as he lies exhausted but smiling on a bunk in a cabin on the launch. Dry clothing, tea and later some hot soup revived the rescued airmen.