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1942 USA.: The Return of fighter pilot Eddie Rickenbacker
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1:30Now PlayingDate: 1st January 1942
Location: WASHINGTON, U.S.A. NEW YORK, U.S.A. U.S.A.
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: RICKENBACKER RESCUE
TO BE CONTINUED
U.S.A.:
SAV PBY plane in air.
CU pilot's head in cockpit.
SAV showing gun of plane and water below.
SAV PBY plane in air.
GV crowd waiting to meet plane.
SBV people meeting plane.
SCU Rickenbacker being helped out of plane.
CU side view Rickenbacker being helped out of plane.
SCU Lieut Cherry being helped out of plane.
SV Pte. Bratak being helped out of plane.
SV Lieut. Whitaker shaking hands with an Air officer.
LV two planes on ground.
SCU William Eadie, who rescued Rickenbacker, and his companions.
SCU Radioman Soute, who first spotted the survivors on rubber boat.
SV officers inspect rubber boat (dinghy).
CU inspecting rubber boat.
CU inside rubber boat.
INT
SV rescued men in hospital beds.
SV patient being examined by doctor.
SV Col. Adamson and doctor by his bedside.
SCU Rickenbacker in bed drinking from a glass.
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