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

Swiss army helpers and soldiers at a radio station set up by a detachment of the US army in the Urbachtal valley near Innertkirchen, taken on 22 November 1946. 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”