SOLDIERS' DEFENSE
FLIERS AT PALACE
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When British flood refugees returned to tiny
Canvey Island in the Thamesthe "Isle of
Death," where the disastrous high tides re
cently drowned 62 residentsthey found the
British army there, hard at work. At the wa
ter's edge the troops formed a human chain,
heaved sandbags into a 200-foot wide hole
in the island's sea wall, in an effort to mend
the break before the March flood tides came.
To show appreciation for the helicopter rescue
of 2,000 people in the Dutch Hoods, Queen
Juliana asked the pilots to Soestdijk Palace.
The airmen came in helicoptersnine Ameri
can, five British, one Belgian, one Dutch. One
landed at the airport, five on a football field,
but 10 plunked down in the palace garden
to the delight of Holland's No. 1 helicop
ter fan, Juliana's husband, Prince Bernhard.
