Martin Antonenko
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Like a miracle...
On March 7, 1960, sailors from the US aircraft carrier USS “Kiersarge” rescued four completely exhausted and emaciated Red Army pioneers from distress in the Pacific.
The odyssey of Sershant Askhat Ziganschin and soldiers Philip Poplawski, Anatoly Krjuchkovskyij and Ivan Fedotow ...
... it had taken 49 days in the open sea since their motor ship BT 36 ...
... was hit by a violent storm while mooring in the harbor (15 meters wave height!) of Wladivostok and was driven into the open Pacific.
The four soldiers are pioneers, that is to say, members of the army (they were originally commanded for unloading work on board) without any sea experience! They do not know how to navigate and they cannot start the engine.
The fact that the propulsion and rudderless boat does not drown in the first night borders on a miracle.
There was no search operation on the part of the Soviets; They found washed-up debris and parts of the cargo on the bank and assumed that BT 36 had sunk with man and mouse!
When the storm finally subsided, the four Red Army soldiers find themselves in the middle of the Pacific ...
On board there was almost no food supply for the four pioneers, only 16 tablespoons of muesli, a bit of bread, a jar of canned fruit and some - diesel-soaked! - Potatoes found in a corner of the engine room.
There was also no fresh water - the soldiers had to make do with cooling water from the failed machinery and finally drink their own urine.
After the last of the groceries had been eaten, everything that resembled food was eaten, leather belts, boot shafts, toothpaste and soap.
Sergeant Ziganschin, who keeps a diary, meticulously noted that he and his people lost around 800 grams a day.
After 49 days the rescue came when the USS “Kiersarge” found and rescued the half-dead soldiers 1930 kilometers from Wake Atoll.
Ziganschin, who had previously weighed over 70 kilos, now weighed less than 40 kilos ...
The Soviet soldiers are fed up again, brought to San Francisco and from there flown home. There you will receive them triumphantly ...:
The newspaper headline above the pictures of the lucky four reads: "Glory of the homeland!"
A bit thick when you consider that the authorities of their mother country didn't lift a finger to save them ...
On March 7, 1960, sailors from the US aircraft carrier USS “Kiersarge” rescued four completely exhausted and emaciated Red Army pioneers from distress in the Pacific.
The odyssey of Sershant Askhat Ziganschin and soldiers Philip Poplawski, Anatoly Krjuchkovskyij and Ivan Fedotow ...
... it had taken 49 days in the open sea since their motor ship BT 36 ...
... was hit by a violent storm while mooring in the harbor (15 meters wave height!) of Wladivostok and was driven into the open Pacific.
The four soldiers are pioneers, that is to say, members of the army (they were originally commanded for unloading work on board) without any sea experience! They do not know how to navigate and they cannot start the engine.
The fact that the propulsion and rudderless boat does not drown in the first night borders on a miracle.
There was no search operation on the part of the Soviets; They found washed-up debris and parts of the cargo on the bank and assumed that BT 36 had sunk with man and mouse!
When the storm finally subsided, the four Red Army soldiers find themselves in the middle of the Pacific ...
On board there was almost no food supply for the four pioneers, only 16 tablespoons of muesli, a bit of bread, a jar of canned fruit and some - diesel-soaked! - Potatoes found in a corner of the engine room.
There was also no fresh water - the soldiers had to make do with cooling water from the failed machinery and finally drink their own urine.
After the last of the groceries had been eaten, everything that resembled food was eaten, leather belts, boot shafts, toothpaste and soap.
Sergeant Ziganschin, who keeps a diary, meticulously noted that he and his people lost around 800 grams a day.
After 49 days the rescue came when the USS “Kiersarge” found and rescued the half-dead soldiers 1930 kilometers from Wake Atoll.
Ziganschin, who had previously weighed over 70 kilos, now weighed less than 40 kilos ...
The Soviet soldiers are fed up again, brought to San Francisco and from there flown home. There you will receive them triumphantly ...:
The newspaper headline above the pictures of the lucky four reads: "Glory of the homeland!"
A bit thick when you consider that the authorities of their mother country didn't lift a finger to save them ...
