Last Sunday morning at 4:30 A.M., an emergency call came over the airwaves from a small settlement located near the North Pole, called Resolute bay. Asking anyone in Canada, Alaska or Greenland or Iceland to provide aid as a little 9 year old boy lie near death with a bullet lodged in his stomach. The little boy was called Jimmy # A-39-42, no name, just a number.

The 61^st intercepted this call for aid and in thirty minutes, a crew of men, Captain Van Dyke, Lt. Yerkes, Lt. Haines, Lt. Kelly, Lt. Wright, Sgt. Tackett, AC/1c Love and T/Sgt. Mckinney were out of their beds and in their plane roaring down the runway headed for Resolute Bay, hoping that they could find it as the navigational aids are rendered helpless over the magnetic pole. They stopped at Thule and received more fuel and medical supplies and continued on their mission.

Lt. Wright and Lt. Kelly, the Navigators, using the sun as the constant heading, brought the plane into the settlement. Little Jimmy was loaded aboard with 2 Canadian Medical men and started back to Thule. Enroute, the boy became worse and the Doctor at Thule was called to the radio and gave instructions as to giving blood plasma. This was done and the boy was delivered to Thule. We are very happy to report that Jimmy is recovering & will soon be back with his family.