MISSION REPORT: 29 December 1944

MISSION REPORT - RESCUES - 01

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29 DECEMBER 1944
Captain Lloyd R. "Chief" Humphreys, pilot of "Playmate Four Two", departed Morotai at 0433 on a special mission along the Mindanao coast line and in the area around Tolong Point on Negros. At 0905 he arrived at Sindangan Bay and searched without results for five survivors reported to have been sighted. He continued the search on North to Blanca Point, then on to Tolong, Negros. At 1145, Captain Humphreys landed at Tolong and picked up Sergeamt R.L. Miller and six Japanese prisoners who had been captured by the Filipinos. Sergeant Miller was the last man of a B-24 crew to be rescued that had gone down early in November. Captain Humphreys unloaded his supplies of food and medicine and departed for his base, arriving at 1845.

RESCUED MAN: Sergeant R.L. Miller & six Jap prisoners

AIRCRAFT TYPE: OA-10A*
USAAF SERNO: 44-33880 (CV-332)**
CALLSIGN: "Playmate 42"
CREW: (Pilot) Captain Lloyd R. Humphreys

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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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