Скачать или смотреть Italian Bomber Crew Ditched at Sea — An American Pilot Landed in a Storm to Save Them

In July 1943, an Italian bomber crew was stranded in the middle of a violent Mediterranean storm, clinging to the wreckage of their sinking CANT Z.506 floatplane. They were the enemy, and their situation was hopeless.
But high above, an American PBY Catalina, piloted by Lieutenant Richard "Dick" Kight, spotted them.
This documentary details the incredible true story of the "impossible choice" Lt. Kight made. Against all regulations and at the risk of his own crew's lives, he attempted a "suicidal" open-sea landing in a raging storm to rescue his drowning enemies.
But the rescue was only the beginning of the ordeal. The landing crippled the Catalina, leaving both the American and Italian crews trapped together in a sinking wreck. This is the story of how 12 men, officially enemies, were forced to survive together against a common foe: the sea.
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