Show Three Fliers Fliers' Steaks Steaks' After Two o W Wilds McCALL Idaho Feb eb 18 MP UPI UPI- It was thick steaks and Frenc French fries and plenty of rest Thursday for three amazing young youngS army army l i airmen who for two weeks through deep snowdrifts to reach safety after their bomber landed crash on a frozen mountain mountain moun moun- tam tain lake The three arrived here late Wednesday on a sled pulled I be Ie- behind hind a tractor Two t Of f them had reached a forest ranger station a aday ad aday d day y earlier to telephone for help while the third was left six miles mUes farther bac back bacat at an abandoned CC C his feet were were fro ch and and n nad d injury I dont don't mind saying there ther were several tithes times when we were badly scared said Lieutenant Adte B. B Schermerhorn 21 24 of ot Ausable Chasm N. N Y leader of therlo One night just after W we we had animals I crossed a creek we heard Js howling i f i. i in th the dl distance tance ra and d' d d dra draS J j ht V S r I S S Ing b yv s nd closer We thought they hey wolves but we weren't re ire Anyway we counted our ourI bullets and prayed hard Juard and the I animals didn't bother us after all Schermerhorn and Staff Sergeant Ser Ser- geant Edward M. M Freeborg 19 19 of Seattle were uninjured from fro the ordeal Staff Sergeant Ralph Pruitt 28 of Wichita Kan had both feet teet frozen and his knee hurt A medical corps of officer told them all to get plenty of rest here before they will be taken by automobile automobile auto auto- auto I mobile miles mUes to Gowen Field army air base at Boise The three were members of a crew of eight who rode the bomber bomb bomb- er McChord Field Tacoma Tacoma Tacoma Ta- Ta coma Wash in the landing crash-landing January 29 TI The e three set out from the plane February 2 se seeking seek seek- lc- lc ing help but the other five re remained remained remained re- re with the craft They were rescued lat last Sunday after a civil civil- fan an an flier sighted flier d them and landed his ski equipped plane on n the e lake S. S S 5 |