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The unexpected rescue mission that inspired ABC mini-series Flight into Hell â and other survivalists
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Adolph Klausmann, Captain Hans Bertram, Constable Gordon Marshall, and two unidentified Aboriginal men sitting on the ground after Klausmann and Bertram were rescued in Western Australia s Kimberley in June 1932.
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It s the unlikely tale of survival you d expect to see on the silver screen, not in the history books. When I tell you how the Samaritans of the wilds tended and cared for us, German aviator Hans Bertram would write years later, you ll understand that I wish to bear witness to the greatest and noblest virtue of the human soul â charity.