U.S. AIR FORCE
U.S. AIR FORCE AND Coast Guard aircraft based in Florida and the Bahamas undertook major rescue operations on Dec. 30 to save the 28-member crew of a 493-ft. freighter that began to sink 270 mi. east of Cape Canaveral. The British-owned Merchant Patriot began sinking after a water pipe ruptured in...
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