Keywords: HRP-1 pickup Bongo Is NAN6-49.jpg A U S Navy Piasecki HRP-1 picking up a pilot in 1949 The caption explains this as the rescue of a Lt Wink van Ripple from a Bongobongo island after the pilot had spent four years with natives Interestingly he still wears his flight suit and neither a Lt van Ripple nor a Bongobongo island could be identified There is just a Bongo Island in the Philippines off the eastern coast of Cebu U S Navy Naval Aviation News June 1949 p 1 http //www history navy mil/nan/backissues/1940s/1949/Jun49 pdf 1949 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy 1949 Piasecki HRP Rescuer |