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Flight to Korea, June 25, 1950.
The air rescue crews who provided a continuous presence in occupied Japan were predominately veterans of World War II. Their twenty-four tours ranged from the tolerance of boredom to the excitement of unusual and unpredictable challenges. The crews' reward was the knowledge that during peace or war the alert phone would send them on a real-life mission to satisfy a vital need. They lived the Air Rescue Service's motto: "These things we do, that others may live."
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