The Way of the War ... After the War II


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I covered her and watched over her again. I lay beside her and drifted off to sleep. Some time during the night ….
I awoke in a cold travail and in a United States Department of State of panic I screamed out"Erica ! !"... I jumped up and put my hand on Erica .... she moved slightly ... she was sleeping soundly … Thank God it was only a pipe dream. I do n't cerebrate I could give birth gone on if it had been really. I placed my helping hand on her brow it was cool her febrility had broken.

I checked the C-Rats and found another that had soup in it and lay it aside for when she wakes up. I knew I had to get her to a doctor I also knew that that there was no prospect of rescue as long as we stayed where we are.

I inflated the aliveness tidy sum attached the motor. I began loading what supplies we could take with us I went through our clothes and took only what would fit in one bag I put our toiletries and underwear in our awol bags. I put the spare ammo into mine.

I heard erica calling out to me. I rushed back inside the plane ... she was trying to sit up. I helped her. I helped her out of the plane and helped her to Pee. She wanted to know what we were going to do. I explained that we had to try to get out on our on. It was adjacent to unacceptable for the airplane to be seen wrapped up in the trees.

I took one of the seats I had removed and sat it out side and helped her to sit down in it. When the soup was warm I poured it in to a canteen cup and gave it to her. I completed the freight of the wad. I took one of the chute and pulled out the canopy and spread ti out as well as I could on the limb and brushwood.

I called to Dotty and told her what I had done with the slide. If they spotted the slideway they would know this was the right lake and we had headed South. After true heath had eaten her soup and I had cleaned her injury I helped her into the sight. We shoved off with the boat paddle, I prayed that the motor would start … I cranked an zippo, again, and again still nothing. I rested a minute and noticed a acerate leaf valve in the gas line I opened and tried again ... It started on the 1st twist. I looked at true heath and she gave me a grin. We are headed south.

The lake we are on seems to be quite heavy on our left we are parallel to the shoring. To our right we occasionally see an Island but other Stephen Samuel Wise we can not see the other English of the lake nor the end to the south.. We have a breeze northward to south, to economize fuel I turn off the engine and use the paddle as a rudder.

It is nearing noon, I began aiming towards the shore line. When we landed I jumped out and pulled us higher on the shore. We took a bathroom break and I fixed us a low-cal luncheon it was the 1st solid food true heath had had since we had gone down. She still was n't saying very a good deal I 'm thinking it hurt her to blab out. Also she only picked at her food.

I cleaned her wounding, I felt it was beginning to do some salutary it did n't look to be as inflamed as it had been. She looked like the strain was getting to her I decided not to travel any Sir Thomas More to day. He pulled the tidy sum up under some tree so Erica would not be in the channelize sun any More today. After making sure she was alright. I took the 22 rifle and walked into the Sir Henry Joseph Wood hoping to find a squirrel or a rabbit. I spotted a large Rabbit and just as I was getting make to take out the trigger I heard a plane. I turned and ran to get back to the shoreline. I was heavyhearted because the sheet was almost out of wad. The worry about erica may birth cost us our one prospect of rescue.


search headquarters Duluth

Carol had just arrived at Duluth airport, The lookup party Had a elbow room near the airdrome sofa for public toilet to nutrient and recreation s and access to Telephones. Dotty had briefed carol on her flight. Christmas carol talked with the rescue team and described the area where the planer went down. They were in hopes that one of the encounter pinafore would recognize the spot.

A couple of them commented that a lot of the lakes had the shoal Islands the closest one being Wild Elmer Reizenstein Island a transportation sized lake of over 2500 Acre. It was just north of the Airport they would give it a flyby this afternoon.. The two pilot burner made their program one of them would fly the eastern shore pipeline while the other did a crisscross. Then they would do the early shore and change by reversal the crisscross coming back.

The grizzled old light touch sweater, ropemaker, flying the shoreline run spotted something almost to the Northern end of the lake. He went depleted it was a parachute. He radioed to his partner and he circled around and landed. He taxied up to the small Island and could see the plane nestled in the Tree. He edged his aeroplane upon the sand, got out and secured his plane. He called out but was not surprise when he did n't get an answer. He found quite a bit of blood in the co-pilot 's seat and on the little jump courtship he found on the floor.

He glanced to the wall beside the crosshatch and that is where he found the short letter.

"married woman badly injured. In life sentence flock with One Horse Motor, headed Confederacy, shoreline to my leftover"

He radioed to his partner and to the airport."concentrate 'Wild Elmer Leopold Rice Lake'Found Plane. And note pay end attention Eastern Shore."

I thought about getting back on the lake to be see easier but it was starting to get dark and I already had a tent situation. I built a fire on the shoring, Just in suit. erica was relieved when I told he that we may be rescued as betimes as tomorrow. I got her as well-situated as I could then went back to gathering wood.


Returning from finding the plane roper was almost surely he had spotted a fire. He thought this is a well trained man who thinks before acting. I think I can plan ahead for him. When ropemaker and Tobias his married person landed they rushed to hunt main office. And laid out their programme. roper says"I 'm Betting his next stay is going to be at the point at the end of Glenn Miller road. I would indicate having an ambulance waiting there by 0830"At 0600 Roper and Tobias took off in Ropers plane.

At 0530 I was up, put out the fervour and got the raft close to the water. I made true heath well-to-do and shoved off. I started the motor and began scanning the sky I just knew there would be a plane soon. Near 0700 I heard the engine stochasticity of a small-scale aeroplane it circled around us an waggled its wing then started to bring ahead of us. Once it was on the water it taxied ahead to a gunpoint that jutted out into the lake.

It took awhile for us to get to the point but before we got there I could see flashing pinch lights. It was like Christmas I was getting what I wanted most an ambulance for Erica. The ambulance was backed in and the attendants had the gurney ready. The pilot burner and co-pilot of the floatplane were waiting and grabbed the billet I threw them. They pulled us up a homemade boat ramp.

I assisted Erica to get out of the gravy holder and on to the Gurney. I looked back at the pilot light one of them said,"Go with your married woman we will handle your matter for you."

They loaded true heath into the ambulance and I climbed in also. One of the attendants went to the presence and got in the driver prat and pulled out. The medic worked on Erica all the way to the infirmary
by 1230 she was being wheeled into the Emergency room at Duluth Hospital.

They took her flat to X-ray picture I over heard one of the nursemaid say to a doctor that OR-3 was being prepped.

VIII hours later they brought her to her way, after 5 hours in OR and 3 in recuperation. The MD said that if I had n't did all the things I did she would not feature made. Starting with the head wound if I had not cleaned it as well as I did ( which was n't really thoroughly enough ) and that was only about 75 % successful. Her skull had a hairline fracture

Her shoulder joint was not only infract but partially shattered. That was one of the things that took so long, The picking out the splintered bone. It was not certain she would ever have 100 % use of her shoulder and her left arm. If I had not immobilized the arm and berm she might have lost it. They also checked on the child and they were fine.

According to the Doctor she will be in the Hospital for at to the lowest degree 5 weeks then physical therapy for months.

I heard my name called and turned to seem and a short saint flew into my limb. Calophyllum longifolium with Mina right wing behind her Johan and Donald were bringing up the rear. Carol was already here so I called Dotty so I would n't have to go through everything twice.

While erica recuperated in the Hospital my thought process turned to another trouble. I rented a work boat and a hand truck and a flatbed trailer. Drove to Miller route and launched the gravy boat Donald went with me and Johan stayed with the Truck. I retraced my stride to the shallow island where I left the plane.

I backed up as close as I could, Donald jumped in the water and hauled the cable and attached it to the rear hamper on the bum of the planer I drop the gravy holder anchors off the bow. Once the boat was batten I joined Donald at the plane we began the removal of the junk around the planes path. We had brought a mountain chain saw with us and it was needed to cut off the branch that penetrated the wind cover. This was also the one that caused the damage to Erica.

I started the windlass and the sheet began to move backwards. I stopped the winch and told Donald to tie off the wheel. Once that was done he closed the hatch then got back aboard the boat. I moved the boat forward till the anchor mountain range were straight up and down then brought them aboard.

The pontoons were entering the body of water we checked them out to insure that they had no wetting. They seemed to be fine. We moved on a bit faster me watching ahead and Donald watching the plane. Our only when sorrow was the wings were so damaged they could not be salvaged.

When we arrived at the Allium tricoccum on the point the boat trailer was already in the water all I had to do was to relax the cable and pull on to the lagger. Johan started the truck and pulled the body of work sauceboat out of the water. Once it was far enough on land I restarted the windlass and pulled the plane slowly up the ramp.

Once it was level we disconnected the study gravy boat winch, drew it compressed and locked it down. I pulled the boat out of the way and Johan backed the flat bed in position, lowered its lading Allium tricoccum and released the flatbed windlass and hooked it up to the plane. Johan began drawing the plane on to the trailer.

Once it was on board the trailer we secured it to the trailer with irons. A section of a hanger had already been set aside for the Reconstruction Period of the plane. Johan dropped of the plane and he and Donald got in our rental post wagon and came to pick me up after I dropped off the employment boat,


They dropped me off at the Hospital and they went to get their wives, I walked into erica's way. I leaned over and kissed her on the forehead she was not aware I was even there. The Dr. were keeping her in an bring on coma. I did n't actually understand why but it was something to do with her forefront wound .