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Strange, history records the photographer and the pilot who was shot down, but not the name of the naked gunner who had rescued the pilot.
"PBY Air Sea rescue plane picks up Lt. Robert A. Schaeffer, badly burned USMC F-4-U pilot of Dayton Ohio, shot down in St. Georges Channel near Rabaul. Gunner who helped bring in pilot is back at station." April 1944: St. Georges Channel; Horace Bristol; 80-G-473978."
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