Show 3 Military Plane Crashes l' l Take lake 42 Lives Hurt 61 By United Press At least 42 persons died and 6 61 were injured in three week end endI I military airplane crashes into a mountainside a prisoners prisoner's barracks barracks barracks bar bar- racks and the moonlit North Pa eif i c. c Three others were feared dead deac but 12 survived the West Vest Coast t tragedies r rag a g e d die i e s near Port Angeles Wash Vash at Sacramento Cal CaI anc ancin and andin andin in Hecate Strait near the Queen Charlotte Islands Seven s sur survivors u r v i v o 0 r s told grim stories of the crash of a Korean airlift DC 4 which smashed into Hecate Strait as it attempted an emergency landing at it Sandspit Field on the Queen Charlotte Islands i I Tell Tragic Story The seven described how 36 others i including n c 1 u din g two civilian pilots pilots' and a stewardess froze or drowned in degree 27 waters before before be be- fore help arrived Three other men were feared dead in the crash of a B 17 rescue plane which plunged into Tyler Peak near Port Angeles while returning returning re re- re turning from the scene of the DC 4 crash In Sacramento a B 25 l I light i g h t bomber flopped down on a prisoner prisoner pris pris- oner barracks killing six persons and injuring 61 others The crash occurred minutes after the 39 prisoners had returned to the barracks after their noon meal Rescued by Boat The survivors of the sea crash were taken to McChord l Base Wash where they gasped I out their story of death by slow motion in the icy North Pacific They were rescued by an out out- 1 board motor boat manned by volunteers volunteers vol vol- who had heard their cries for far help The plane c chartered h art e r c d from Trans V SP World o 0 r rid l d Airlines by the Army was flown by a Northwest Airlines crew cress The servicemen were returning home from Kolea Korea Ko- Ko Korea rea lea on emergency leave They told how they watched survivors of the crash slip off a awing awing wing tip and disappear slowly beneath the water We Ve would pull them up out of the water and set them on the thc wing said PIc William Price 26 of Chicago But they just slipped sUpped back in It got to the point where there I was no helping anybody else We Ve I were just exhausted I |