90 Minutes

Crossing the enemy coast, the P-51 Mustang was purring sweetly. Lieut. William B. Overstreet, of Clifton Forge, Va., switched on a full tank of gas, noted the time, 2 p.m.; the altitude, 23,000 feet. Suddenly Overstreet had a vague feeling of being alone, his engine dead, his plane gliding in slow spirals.

He switched to another full fuel tank. Then, incredulous, he noted the time. It was 3:30; his altitude was only 5,000 feet. The engine caught. The French landscape below was more or less familiar.

Back at his English base, Lieut. Overstreet found that his oxygen mask had failed. For 90 minutes he had flown an airplane over France, unconscious.

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