A Story of a Rescue...62 years ago.

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A Story of a Rescue...62 years ago.

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"The four young U.S. Coast Guard sailors faced a "suicide mission," steering their small wooden boat into 80-foot waves and a blinding nor'easter in a bid to reach 84 men clinging to the broken hulls of two World War II-era tankers 5 miles off the coast of Massachusetts..."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/18/ma ... noreaster/
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That took guts
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