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...search and rescue unit of the Hawaiian Sea Frontier picked up the distress signal. A converted Army B17, Honolulu-bound from Kwajalein, was running out of fuel 100 miles west of Barbers Point. In the control tower on Oahu, controlmen listened to the calm voice of disaster: "Number Three Engine is out at 2,200 feet. . . . Two and Three Engines dead at 1,400 feet . . . losing altitude. ... I'd better go ahead and set down while I have two engines. . . ." There was a pause. Then, "Now ditching." At 11:46, the radio went...
Minutes later the first search planes headed out. Navy and Coast Guard patrol craft steamed out of Pearl Harbor. A destroyer squadron en route from the West Coast was ordered to the scene at flank speed. Aboard the ditched B-17 was a contingent of top officers from General Douglas MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters. Among them: Political Adviser (and Ambassador) George Atcheson Jr., chairman of the Allied -Council for Japan...
Despite flares and a pinpoint, radar-controlled search pattern, rescue planes crisscrossed the area in vain all night. At 7 the next morning, a Marine fighter pilot sighted an overturned life raft. A following B-iy spotted three survivors floating in the shark-infested water. An hour later the Coast Guard cutter Hermes picked them...
...rescue teams pressed their search into the second night the survivors remembered what they could of the final minutes. One recalled his last words to Ambassador Atcheson as the B-17 glided closer to the tossing waves: "I'm sorry it had to end this way." Smiling a little, Atcheson had replied calmly: "Well, it can't be helped...
...retired Canadian lumber dealer, Williamson was used to playing a lone hand. After acquiring a Ph.D. in geology at McGill University, he went to South Africa to work for a copper mine in 1934. He quit to roam the veldt in search of diamonds. After he found them (according to one story, a native found a diamond and took him to the site), he settled down to mining...