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 catch some Z's. Some time during the Nox ….
I awoke in a cold lather and in a land of terror I screamed out"erica ! !"... I jumped up and put my hired man on Erica .... she moved slightly ... she was sleeping soundly … Thank God it was only a ambition. I do n't suppose I could receive gone on if it had been substantial. I placed my hand on her os frontale it was cool her fever 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 doc I also knew that that there was no chance of rescue as long as we stayed where we are.

I inflated the biography raft attached the motor. I began loading what supplies we could contain with us I went through our clothes and took only what would fit in one bag I put our toilet articles and underclothing in our awol pocketbook. 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 airplane and helped her to Pee. She wanted to cognise what we were going to do. I explained that we had to try to get out on our on. It was next to impossible for the sheet to be seen wrapped up in the Tree.

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 ardent I poured it in to a mobile canteen cup and gave it to her. I completed the loading of the heap. I took one of the chute and pulled out the canopy and spread ti out as well as I could on the arm and brush.

I called to Dotty and told her what I had done with the sloping trough. If they spotted the chute they would know this was the right lake and we had headed South. After Erica had eaten her soup and I had cleaned her wound I helped her into the Raft. We shoved off with the paddle, I prayed that the motor would start … I cranked an zip, again, and again still nothing. I rested a minute and noticed a phonograph needle valve in the gas line I opened and tried again ... It started on the 1st pull. I looked at true heath and she gave me a grinning. We are headed south.

The lake we are on seems to be quite large on our left we are parallel to the shore. To our rightfulness we occasionally see an Island but former wise we can not see the other position of the lake nor the end to the south.. We have a breeze North to south, to economise fuel I turn off the engine and use the boat paddle as a rudder.

It is nearing noon, I began aiming towards the shoring personal credit line. When we landed I jumped out and pulled us higher on the shore. We took a bathroom break and I fixed us a lite lunch it was the 1st solid food erica had had since we had gone down. She still was n't saying very much I 'm thinking it hurt her to talk. Also she only picked at her food.

I cleaned her lesion, I felt it was beginning to do some good it did n't appear to be as inflamed as it had been. She looked like the strain was getting to her I decided not to travel any more to day. He pulled the raft up under some trees so Erica would not be in the direct sun any More today. After making for certain she was alright. I took the 22 rifle and walked into the woodwind hoping to chance a squirrel or a coney. I spotted a large Rabbit and just as I was getting ready to root for the initiation I heard a plane. I turned and ran to get back to the shoreline. I was heavyhearted because the plane was almost out of slew. The headache about erica may have cost us our one probability of rescue.


Search home office Duluth

Carol had just arrived at Duluth airport, The Search party Had a way near the Airport waiting room for comfort station to intellectual nourishment and recreation s and access to telephony. Dotty had briefed carol on her flight. Carol talked with the saving police squad and described the arena where the carpenter's plane went down. They were in hopes that one of the brush jumpers would realize the spot.

A duet of them commented that a lot of the lakes had the shallow Islands the closemouthed one being Wild Rice Island a transportation sized lake of over 2500 acres. It was just north of the Airport they would grant it a flyby this afternoon.. The two pilots made their plan one of them would fly the easterly shore line while the other did a mark. Then they would do the other shoring and countermand the crisscross coming back.

The grizzled old light touch pinafore, Roper, flying the shoreline run spotted something almost to the Northern end of the lake. He went lowly it was a chute. He radioed to his partner and he circled around and landed. He taxied up to the belittled Island and could see the planer nestled in the tree diagram. He edged his plane upon the sand, got out and secured his planing machine. He called out but was not surprised when he did n't get an answer. He found quite a bit of blood in the co-pilot 's tooshie and on the lowly jump suit he found on the floor.

He glanced to the wall beside the hatch and that is where he found the note.

"married woman badly injured. In life-time Raft with One gymnastic horse Motor, headed South, shoreline to my leave behind"

He radioed to his partner and to the airport."concentrate 'Wild Rice Lake'Found aeroplane. And Note pay finale 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 camp site. I built a fire on the shore, Just in shell. Erica was relieved when I told he that we may be rescued as early as tomorrow. I got her as comfortable as I could then went back to gathering wood.


Returning from finding the planer rope-maker was almost sure he had spotted a flack. He thought this is a well trained man who thinks before acting. I think I can plan ahead for him. When Roper and Tobias his partner landed they rushed to Search headquarters. And laid out their design. ropemaker says"I 'm Betting his next blockage is going to be at the power point at the end of Miller road. I would advise having an ambulance waiting there by 0830"At 0600 rope-maker and Tobias took off in ropemaker plane.

At 0530 I was up, put out the fire and got the raft close to the piddle. I made erica comfortable 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 railway locomotive haphazardness of a minor planing machine it circled around us an waggled its annex then started to bring ahead of us. Once it was on the H2O it taxied ahead to a point that jutted out into the lake.

It took awhile for us to reach out the spot but before we got there I could see dart emergency lights. It was like Christmas I was getting what I wanted most an ambulance for true heath. The ambulance was backed in and the concomitant had the gurney ready. The buffer and co-pilot of the floatplane were waiting and grabbed the line I threw them. They pulled us up a homemade boat ramp.

I assisted erica to get out of the boat and on to the Gurney. I looked back at the archetype one of them said,"Go with your wife we will wield your things for you."

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

They took her flat to X-Ray I over heard one of the Nurses say to a medico that OR-3 was being prepped.

VIII hr later they brought her to her way, after 5 hours in surgery and 3 in recovery. The Doctor said that if I had n't did all the things I did she would not have made. Starting with the heading wound if I had not cleaned it as well as I did ( which was n't really well enough ) and that was only about 75 % successful. Her skull had a hairline crack

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

According to the Doctor she will be in the infirmary for at least 5 hebdomad then physical therapy for months.

I heard my name called and turned to look and a little backer flew into my weapons system. maria with myna right behind her Johan and Donald were bringing up the butt. Carol was already here so I called Dotty so I would n't have to go through everything twice.

While Erica recuperated in the infirmary my thought process turned to another problem. I rented a oeuvre boat and a truck and a flatbed house trailer. drove chisel to Miller road and launched the boat Donald went with me and Johan stayed with the truck. I retraced my dance step 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 length and attached it to the fanny bond on the bum of the plane I drop the gravy boat anchorperson off the bow. Once the boat was secure I joined Donald at the sheet we began the removal of the debris around the planes way. We had brought a chain saw with us and it was needed to cut off the arm that penetrated the wind concealment. This was also the one that caused the terms to Erica.

I started the windlass and the aeroplane began to displace backwards. I stopped the winch and told Donald to tie off the cycle. Once that was done he closed the hatch then got back aboard the boat. I moved the sauceboat forward till the anchor concatenation were straight up and down then brought them aboard.

The pontoons were entering the piddle we checked them out to guarantee that they had no leaks. They seemed to be ok. We moved on a bit faster me watching ahead and Donald watching the woodworking plane. Our merely regret was the backstage were so damaged they could not be salvaged.

When we arrived at the incline on the point the gravy holder trailer was already in the water all I had to do was to slack the cable and pull on to the trailer. Johan started the truck and pulled the workplace boat out of the water. Once it was far enough on land I restarted the winch and pulled the plane slowly up the ramp.

Once it was stage we disconnected the oeuvre gravy holder winch, drew it close and locked it down. I pulled the gravy holder out of the way and Johan backed the flat bed in attitude, lowered its loading ramp and released the flat windlass and hooked it up to the plane. Johan began drawing the plane on to the trailer.

Once it was on control board the trailer we secured it to the trailer with irons. A section of a hanger had already been set aside for the Reconstruction of the sheet. Johan dropped of the plane and he and Donald got in our rental place Wain and came to nibble me up after I dropped off the work gravy boat,


They dropped me off at the Hospital and they went to get their married woman, I walked into Erica's way. I leaned over and kissed her on the forehead she was not aware I was even there. The doctors were keeping her in an cause coma. I did n't actually understand why but it was something to do with her read/write head wounding .