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Why three Navy airmen faced impossible odds after their torpedo bomber went down in the Pacific Ocean during WW2 — stranded in a 4×8-foot raft with no food, no water, and no rescue coming. This World War 2 story reveals what Harold Dixon, Gene Aldrich, and Tony Pastula discovered about survival that every manual said was impossible.

January 16, 1942. Chief Aviation Machinist's Mate Harold Dixon, piloting a Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bomber from USS Enterprise, ran out of fuel 200 miles from the carrier. The plane sank in 30 seconds, taking all survival gear with it. Dixon, radioman Gene Aldrich (22), and bombardier Tony Pastula (24) inflated a rubber raft barely large enough for three men. Navy survival manuals said three to four days was the maximum anyone could survive without water. Medical experts called extended survival at sea "impossible" without food or rescue.

They were all wrong.

What Dixon faced that first night wasn't about waiting for rescue. It was about making choices that contradicted everything the Navy had taught about passive survival. When sharks circled the raft on day seven, the men had to decide: become prey or become predators. The Pacific Ocean was about to test every limit of human endurance.

This story explores one of the most extreme survival ordeals in naval history, revealing techniques that would later change how the military trained airmen for Pacific operations. What these three men learned in that raft challenged every medical prediction about human limits.

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