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Rickenbacker to the Rescue

Black and white photo of a Douglas DC-2 plane at the airstrip with some onlookers and three automobiles.

Source: Conception Bay Museum Archives

Black and white photograph of a Douglas DC-2 plane, The Great Silver Fleet, piloted by Eddie Rickenbacker, American flying ace. This plane had arrived for a rescue mission of the Lady Peace, which had crash landed in a bog in Musgrave Harbour, NL.