MISSION REPORT: 22 August 1944

MISSION REPORT - EVAC - 11

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22 AUGUST 1944
Captain Gerard F. Wientjes, with his crew of six men evacuated one wounded man and ten men sick with Typhus fever from Warsaw Bay on the North coast of Biak Island at 1130. The evacuees were transported to Owi Island where waiting ambulances of the 92nd General Hospital took charge of them.

EVACUATED: 1 wounded man, 10 sick men with Typhus

AIRCRAFT TYPE: OA-10A*
USAAF SERNO: 44-33885 (CV-342)**
CALLSIGN: "Daylight ??"
CREW: (Pilot) Captain Gerard F. Wientjes; (Co-Pilot) 2nd Lt. Eric A. Lakes; (Navigator) 2nd Lt. Peter F. Naylor; (Engineer) Tech Sergeant John Y. Cunningham; (Aerial Engineer) Staff Sergeant Durward S. Stewart

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The narrative of these rescues was compiled and published in April 1946 from logbooks of pilots, notes, letters, and other
information by secretary Marina G. de Guzman in Pampanga, Philippines.

* Aircraft produced at Canadian Vickers Ldt, Cartierville, Quebec, Canada
** Canadian Vickers contract number that was unique to each aircraft produced by at the Cartierville, Quebec plan
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