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 11 AUGUST 1944
- First Lieutenant
Henry C. "Harry"
Remington, pilot of
"Daylight One Three", while on patrol
received a message that a disabled A-20 fighter was going down in Geelvink Bay off
Loon Island, New Guinea.
Lieutenant Remington proceeded to the rendezvous point and sighted a ship rapidly losing
altitude, finally crashing into the Bay about five miles off shore. Lieutenant Remington
landed his PBY on smooth water and took the uninjured but exhausted pilot onboard. The
rescued pilot, Captain F.W. Klein, stated that while on a strafing mission off
Utaron, New Guinea, his ship
was damaged by anti-aircraft fire, disabling his elevators. He was unable to put his ship
into a climb, but by bracing his feet against the instrument panel and holding the yoke
back, he was able to keep the ship airborne and headed back for his base at Noemfoor.
However, after flying 120 miles, he became exhausted and could no longer hold the yoke
back, so he cut his engines and ditched his ship five miles off shore. The gunner went
down with the ship. The survivor was taken to his base at
Noemfoor.
Rescued A-20 pilot:
Captain F. W. Klein
AIRCRAFT
TYPE:
OA-10A (Canadian
Vickers Ldt, Cartierville, Quebec, Canada)
USAAF
SERNO:
44-33885
(CV-342)*
CALLSIGN:
"Daylight One
Three"
CREW:
(Pilot) 1Lt
Henry C. Remington Jr., (Co-Pilot) 2Lt John M. Baum,
(Navigator) 2Lt MacPherson A. Lester,
(Engineer) T/Sgt Donald W. Brown,
(Radio) Cpl Thomas M. Carroll,
(Radar) Sgt John T. Smith, (Surgical Tech) Sgt Franklin E. Besse
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*CV
number is the Canadian Vickers contract number that was unique to each
aircraft produced by at Cartierville
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