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Switzerland Misfortune Plane Gauligletscher, 1946 (b/w photo)

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KES6249331
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Switzerland Misfortune Plane Gauligletscher, 1946 (b/w photo)
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Grunder & Schmidli & Matter
Medium
photograph
Date
1946 AD (C20th AD)
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On 19 November 1946, an American military aircraft, a Douglas C-53 Dakota (military version of the DC-3), crashed onto the glacier in the Bernese Oberland with twelve people on board. All casualties can be rescued alive after an elaborate rescue operation. American soldiers are waiting in Meiringen on November 24, 1946 in front of their tracked vehicles, which they wanted to use in vain for the rescue operation, for the return of the rescue team.

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Photopress Archiv/Keystone / Bridgeman Images
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accident / plane / aircraft / transport / Switzerland / Europe / crash / tarpaulin / rescue / glacier / armored vehicle / Gauligletscher / plane crash / emergency landing / soldier / plane / soldiery / meiringen
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