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Switzerland Misfortune Plane Gauligletscher, 1946 (b/w photo)

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Image title
Switzerland Misfortune Plane Gauligletscher, 1946 (b/w photo)
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Grunder & Schmidli & Matter
Medium
photograph
Date
1946 AD (C20th AD)
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On November 24, rescue workers will pose on the Gauligletscher for a group photo. On 19 November 1946, an American military aircraft, a Douglas C-53 Dakota (military version of the DC-3), crashed onto the glacier in the Bernese Oberland with twelve people on board. All casualties can be rescued alive after an elaborate rescue operation.

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Photopress Archiv/Keystone / Bridgeman Images
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accident / plane / aircraft / transport / Switzerland / Europe / crash / tarpaulin / rescue / glacier / Mountaineer / group image / Gauligletscher / plane crash / emergency landing / plane / mountains / snow
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