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Eagle City Council has complied with Plenum in which all political groups represented municipal (PP, PSOE and Mixed) approved, unanimously, called a city street with the name of Bartolomé Roldán, to honor and express their gratitude to the courage shown in the famous crash of Palomares.
This afternoon, the mayor of Eagle, Bartolomé Hernández, and self Bartolomé Roldán, accompanied by various local authorities, friends and family of the honoree, uncovered the nameplate of the former skipper "Dorita" on 17 January 1966 rescued two American military pilots, Captain Charles F. Wendorf and Lt. Michael J. Rooney.
Recalling the events of that time, it is worth noting that the "Dorita" had come out with four other sailors to fish at dawn.
About four in the morning, on their way to the Isle de Terreros Villaricos height, while Menelaus networks, could be observed as two huge planes flying over the sky.
Cercioraron quickly refueled one another and suddenly a roar that scared so the members of the craft which forced them to take shelter inside, while pieces of the aircraft fell around them heard.
Now after the first shock, they saw several parachute, surprising you see a falling lump fastened with four parachutes of these, knowing days later that it was a bomb.
The other three pilots wearing parachutes.
Two of them fell about two miles near the coast and the "Dorita".
The third, about four miles offshore, was saved by Francisco Simó Orts, "Paco the pump."
The sea was very choppy and waves prevented at times see the pilots.
Finally able to reach one of them, Captain Charles F. Wendorf, who had a broken arm.
Gently they boarded the boat and put dry clothes.
Meanwhile, they kept worry about the situation of the other airman, Lieutenant and copilot of the plane, Michael J. Rooney, who was also rescued with injuries.
They immediately alerted the emergency services Eagles, awaiting them on arrival at the fishing port, about eleven o'clock.
The two Americans were taken to the hospital, and that brought Francisco an hour later.
Both Francisco Simó as Bartolomé Roldán months later received Medals paths Lifeboat and a small amount of money, by way of discomfort received during the days that they were unable to go fishing.
On April 7 the same year appeared the bomb was dropped a few months before and was nicknamed Francisco "Paco the pump."
For many years, Bartholomew has lived that event as an act of humanity, as an action that anyone would have done well, preventing those men died, thanks to its heroic gesture since that day his ship was just three hundred meters they.
Bartholomew continued his life working and today, now retired, recalls his serenity with aplomb, and the avalanche of names of journalists and entertainments.
But that failed at any time to change your mood of good, helpful and wise man he has always been and is known.
In January last year, to be fulfilled 47 years of the accident and 86 years old, Bartolomé Roldán received the homage of his city, during an event held in the Auditorium and Congress Palace "Infanta Elena".
At that time, the authorities stressed that the humanitarian act of fisherman who left his job to help strangers, but surely it was the most emotional contact Charles F. Wendorf, via videoconference from Denver, where the two They first met after the rescue.
Bartolomé never tired of repeating that he had done nothing he had not done any other person and that is why he never asked to be recognized.
You come, October 17, 2014, the City of Águilas does justice to one of its neighbors, giving Bartolomé Roldán the name of an artery located at the confluence of the street Iberia, a few meters from the sea so appreciated and respected by This great fisherman and a better person.
By this gesture, in the event of the discovery of the plate, both Roland and his granddaughter, Toni Manzanares, on behalf of the entire family, had words of appreciation from the applause of all present.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas
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