As Gino recalls we got no special reception when we docked in Guam which surprised all. I do have a recollection of the personell at Harmon Field later throwing a party or something in the Chivo crews honor. If there were any kind of archives for these things I would love to donate this bright yellow Mae West life vest that stands as a reminder for me of that particular rescue. I actually used this vest in the 1960's when I would do any offshore flying in my single engine airplane, as for example, between Los Angeles and Catalina Island. Bill Harvey told me about the rescue of a C-47 crew in the fall of 1947 by Chivo.
Details are sketchy.
Also, somewhere, I have a copy of the radio message from ComSubPac which congratulated the ship and crew for making the rescue. Is. that it was in distress. Chivo was sailing westbound after having departed Suva, Fiji. Chivo either picked up the discress call from the aircraft or was alerted by ComSubPac of the ditching. We were provided with the aicraft position and, as Gino D'Angelo told it, were the closest vessel to the aircraft.