MISSION REPORT - EVAC - 16
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14 APRIL 1945
 First Lieutenant Earl Hutchings, pilot of "Playmate Four Seven", departed Zamboanga [map] at 1030 for the purpose of evacuating 16 wounded soldiers from the beach at Jolo Jolo Island. The transfer of patients from the beach to the rescue ship was effected without mishap and all personnel were returned to Zamboanga and transferred to the station hospital.

EVACUATED: 16 wounded personnel


AIRCRAFT TYPE: OA-10A*
 USAAF SERNO: 44-33880  (CV-332)**
CALLSIGN:  "Playmate 47"  
CREW: (Pilot) 1st Lt. Earl Hutchings

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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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