MISSION REPORT: 13 December 1944

MISSION REPORT - EVAC - 01

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13 DECEMBER 1944
MISSION: - Cover strike on Cebu

0530:	Takeoff, Morotai
1100:	Rendezvous with Rainbow 1. Proceed to orbit at 10�N - 123�25'E until 1245
1355:	Made water landing after seeing signals from shore at 09�23'N - 123�18'E. Negative results
1445:	Proceeded to Dipolog and landed there. Picked up P-47 pilot I. Weaver, 40th Fighter Squadron
1530:	Took off to proceed to home base
2010:	Landed, Morotai

AIRCRAFT TYPE: OA-10A*
USAAF SERNO: 44-33880 (CV-332)**
CALLSIGN: "Playmate 41"
CREW: (Pilot) Captain Clarence L. Solander; (Co-Pilot) 1st Lt. Richard A. Finn; (Navigator) 1st Lt. Alvin H. Haas; (Engineer) Private First Class Walter P. Forney; (Radio) Sergeant Hyman Hymowitz; (Radar) Sergeant Richard A. Littlefield, (Surgical Tech) Staff Sergeant Louis C. Hibbard

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The narrative of these rescues was compiled and published in April 1946 from logbooks of pilots, notes, letters, and other
information by secretary Marina G. de Guzman in Pampanga, Philippines.

* Aircraft produced at Canadian Vickers Ldt, Cartierville, Quebec, Canada
** Canadian Vickers contract number that was unique to each aircraft produced by at the Cartierville, Quebec plan
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