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...night last week, while taking off from tiny Palmyra Atoll, 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii, an Army C46 and its crew of six smashed into a reef. Radioman Buster Bailey, 19, reached for a fire extinguisher, found that he had no hand. He crawled from the burning plane into knee-deep water, stumbled and discovered that his right leg was gone, too. His fellow crewmen got him to shore and tied their belts around his bleeding stumps...
...notary in southern France, Marga escaped from the tiresome tranquillity of middle-class life by marrying (1911) a rich Basque count much older than herself. Patient Pierre d'Andurain paced her docilely as she darted through Spain, Morocco, Algeria and South America. In 1923, the pair settled in Palmyra, Syria, where Queen Zenobia once ruled the desert caravan routes. There the count owned the Hotel Queen Zenobia, a mud-walled but lavishly furnished caravansary, catering to visiting oilmen, desert chieftains and casual Syrian commercial travelers. Within a few years Marga had turned this oasis into a haven of intrigue...
...soil is not so rich as Europe's in buried clues to the great treasure hunt of history, but it has had its moments. In 1827, Joseph Smith told of finding near Palmyra, N.Y., the cache of inscribed golden tablets* later translated into the Book of Mormon. Some years later another Mormon named James Jesse Strang found another cache of engraved tablets (brass this time) in Walworth County, Wis. In 1869 diggers near Cardiff, N.Y. unearthed what was thought to be petrified proof positive of a vanished race of American supermen-until it developed that...
...Navy had given up altogether on six other islands: Johnston, Wake, Marcus, Iwo, Palmyra and Canton. Iwo, with its 9,800-ft. B-29 strip, would be taken over by the Army; Marcus would have a tiny weather station detachment...
...miles from Palmyra Island, the B-24 in which Zamperini was a bombardier dived into the Pacific and exploded...