CLX,
Bill would get very hot under the collar talking about the Blythe Star.
From another thread
http://www.pprune.org/pacific-genera...ml#post5252366
Blythe Star
It should be a good read. I remember Bill Vincent describe Dick Richey rescue (really 'rescue') one [or was it two??] of the Blythe Star survivors. Flying his Super Cub in foul weather, Dick took off from an impossibly short sand bar, through a wall of foam & spray to save the ship wrecked sailor. But that was only part of the story. Dick & Billy had to battle an incompetent bureaucracy that was reluctant to start or continue the search and who even sent the Tasmanian Police to physically stop these two pilots entering the search