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 | | If a plane missed a landing for any reason, damage from enemy fire, heavy seas which made his landing strip, the carrier, roll and pitch, windshear, or whatever, the rescue ship was on its way quickly to rescue the pilot. |
 | | The Taylor pulled 57 airmen from the sea during its time in the Pacific, a memorable one on IWO D-day plus one when, while on plane guard behind the Bismarck Sea, we pulled this chap out of his plane a minute or two after he hit. |
 | | His leg was hurt but not broken, and later that day we put him back aboard the carrier by means of breeches-buoy. |
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