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Show Two Yanks Take 1,027; Flier Missing 72 Days s r " s v X - f ; 1 If j; -fi L. : v ' : J . . Engine trouble forced Staff Sergt. William I. Coff een (left) of Chicago, a marine flier, to bail out over tht Central Solomon islands. He lived on coconuts and whatever he could find in the jungle until he located friendlj latives. A navy rescue plane picked him up 72 days later. He is pictured as he looked shortly after arriving it a naval base. Center: Lieut. Louis Testa, who with Capt. K. F. Gerard (right) conducted a two-man campaign cam-paign that netted them three Sicilian islands and 1,027 Italian prisoners at a cost of only S3 the rental price )f the fishing boat on which they rode to the islands. They also took nine small tanks and ammunition. |