John A. Prichard
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John A. Prichard
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John A. Prichard Jr. was a United States Coast Guardsman who died while attempting to rescue the crew of a USAAF bomber that had crashed-landed in Greenland in November 1942. Prichard was the pilot of the USCGC Northland's Grumman J2F-4 Duck floatplane. When a USAAF B-17 bomber crash landed near Northland his aircraft was assigned to search for it. He sighted the bomber, and landed as close to the wreck as possible—four miles away. Pritchard and his radioman, RM1 Benjamin A. Bottoms, were able t
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United States Coast Guardsman (1914–1942)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Prichard
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2024-09-15T18:59:24Z
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2024-09-15T18:59:24Z
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