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jan 22, 1942 - crash

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hit by enemy fire and losing fuel, Captain Fred Eaton performed a successful wheels-up landing in the Agaiambo Swamp, with all nine crew surviving the crash and a subsequent six-week ordeal to reach safety, leaving the remarkably intact bomber behind until its discovery decades later.

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Date:

jan 22, 1942
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~ 84 years ago