The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 52

SandaT, September 17, 1950, DECATUR SUNDAY HERALD AND REVIEW PICTURES 52 Wrecked Plane Is Found by Civil Air Patrol in Practise Rescue Mission Ilffj.fffy in Pilots gather on the line in front of their downed plane. About 15 men, working as planes and map out a search pattern. A squad- ground crews, aided in the completion of tha ron of 10 light planes made the search for the mission. Two planes were radio-equipped. Decatur Civil Air Patrol members staged a successful air rescue mission airport and landed in a field near Emery, north of Decatur.

As soon as word last Sunday. A simulated crash of a private plane alerted C. A. P. pilots and was received that a plane was down; civilian planes flown by C.

A. P. members observers and the hunt was on. The lost" plane took off from the municipal went into the air. PDots were brief ed at the airport.

1 7- Robert Tucker is shown talking to occupants of an L-4 To simulate a typical wrecked plane, which would be a craft. The nose of the plane was dragged under the boughs directing them about the progress being made in the search. Vere L. Wikoff, left, and Glenn Poteet, piloted the plane that served as the focal point of the search. Both men are licensed pilots and have many hours in the air.

Poteet is commanding officer of the C. A. P. reason for calling out the air reserve group, Wikoff and Poteet of the tree to add to the interest of the search. Both men The plane is radio equipped and served as contact unit for the ground group.

set their plane down near a clump ot trees and upended the stretched out near the plane to add more realism. rv vi i I 1 i A A I -Wv fin il i Him I. Harry Cannon, left, pilot of a PT-19 which was used in the mission, and J. D. Tucker, observer, check their air maps before taking off from the Decatur municipal airport.

The plane is a war surplus training plane. To complete the training mission the "in- it was reported missing. This was the second jured" were put in the Red Cross vehicle and practise search for the Civil Air Patrol in the rushed to a hospital for further treatment, last two weeks. The A. P.

has a mission of Pilots discovered the plane. 90 minutes after aiding in the search for missing planes. After the downed plane was located from "injured" occupants of the Mrs. Edward the air, Red Cross disaster units were directed Mueller, behind Dr. Schlosser, drove the Red to the scene of the "crash." Dr.

Max Schlosser, Cross station wagon and helped direct the first extreme left, is shown examining one of the id unit set up at the, scene. All photos taken by John Rammel, Herald and Review photographer..