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Switzerland Misfortune Plane Gauligletscher, 1946 (b/w photo)

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KES6247446
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Switzerland Misfortune Plane Gauligletscher, 1946 (b/w photo)
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Grunder & Schmidli & Matter
Medium
photograph
Date
1946 AD (C20th AD)
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On November 24, 1945, the injured US General Haynes was taken to safety by a Fieseler stork aircraft to the Unterbach airfield near Meiringen in the rear. On 19 November 1946 an American military aircraft, a Douglas C-53 Dakota (military version of the DC-3), crashed onto the Gauligletscher in the Bernese Oberland with twelve persons on board. All passengers involved in an accident can be rescued alive after an elaborate rescue operation. The two Swiss military pilots Victor Hug and Pista Hitz land with two Fieseler stork planes, which were equipped with snow runners for landing on the glacier.

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Photopress Archiv/Keystone / Bridgeman Images
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accident / plane / aircraft / transport / Switzerland / Europe / crash / tarpaulin / rescue / glacier / stork / 156 / Rescue sledge / Gauligletscher / plane crash / emergency landing / plane / snow / meiringen
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