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If you want another downed US airmen survival story..

posted 8 years ago by pfarnell
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try the book 'Savage Wilderness" about B24 'Little Eva' which crashed on remote land in northern Australia..

or the 80s Gene Hackman and Danny Glover movie 'Bat 21" ...which is admittedly more about a downed pilot on the run from enemy troops in Vietnam, than jonesing for food and water..

[–] patriotx29 8 years ago

Another, made in 1945, is entitled 'Captain Eddie,' and tells the story of Eddie Rickenbacker and others who were stranded after their aircraft went down as sea. They survived ordeal before being rescued.

[–] pfarnell 8 years ago

never realised Rickenbacker was even lost at sea..maybe on an airliner flight?

His name was mentioned in the old 1970s Howard Hughes biopic I watched other day..