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

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

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black and white photograph

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1946 AD (C20th AD)

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American soldiers with a caterpillar vehicle (Snow-Cat), taken on 22 November 1946 in Meiringen. 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. After locating the plane a few days later, a Swiss rescue team ascends to the crash site on 23 November. After an elaborate rescue operation, all accident victims can be rescued alive and flown into the valley on November 24 by the Swiss military pilots Victor Hug and Pista Hitz with aircraft of the type “Fieseler Storch”

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