Safety equipment. Rubber lifeboats. Aftermath. Safely back at base with their now historic rubber life raft which will be placed on permanent exhibition at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. Anthony J. Pastula, AOM2c, Gene D. Aldrich, RM3c, and Harold F. Dixon, ACMM. This picture was made weeks after their ordeal of thirty-four days in this tiny craft in which they sailed some 1200 miles after their Navy bomber was forced down in the South Pacific. Dixon has received the Navy Cross, his companions commendations for their exploits