![]() ![]() "We know there were two because Sonnek saw them both. “There were two MiGs that attacked us,” said Assard. Then the group, part of the 11 whose misadventure in northern seas touched off a diplomatic storm while the United Nations was in session at San Francisco, were loaded onto an ambulance bus for the 10-mile ride to Oak Knoll Hospital in the Oakland foothills.Įnsign Assard talked briefly to newsmen about the details of the unprovoked attack on the Neptune patrol plane flying out of Kodiak Naval Station over international waters between Alaska and Siberia. Shields, Clawson, Mich., and aviation ordnanceman Donald E. ![]() aviation technician Edward Benko, Chicago airman technician Charles W. The other arrivals, whose families lived too far way to come, are Ens. Berg of Alameda, despite hands made clumsy and awkward with bandages, clasped his wife in a hard embrace. She rushed forward to greet him.Īviation machinist mate Thaddeus Maziarz of Oakland propped himself up to greet his wife, Ruth, and 6-year-old daughter Carol, and then gaze long and happily for the first time at his son and namesake, Thad Jr., 5 weeks oldĪnd aviation ordnanceman Martin E. Nellie Janke of Alameda, who had caught sight of her husband, chief electronics technician Elmer R. ![]() fliers whose Navy patrol plane was shot down June 22 by Russian jet fighters over the Bering Sea arrived here today from Anchorage, Alaska.Ī huddled group of families and friends watched at Alameda Naval Air Station as the seven stretchers were eased out of their hospital plane shortly before 3 a.m. In cheerful spirits, despite wounds, burns and bandages, seven U.S. ![]()
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