From the smile on his face, it would appear that Woody Lindskog may have just returned to base in his Hellcat fighter. Photo provided
It was Ensign Woody Lindskog’s lucky day.
The Navy pilot was plucked from Wasile Bay off Halmahera Island in the South Pacific by an Army Air Corps Catalina flying boat, right under the nose of a Japanese gun emplacement and thousands of enemy troops after his Hellcat fighter was hit by an antiaircraft flak and crashed.
