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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1944
Page
7
Lieutenant and bombardier recount a fatal day in combat over the Philippines and Java. The crew’s high flying bomber battles Zeros, with seven enemy aircraft shot down while the squadron heads toward Brazil, Egypt, Iraq, and India.
The account follows a bomber crew’s action over Java and Palembang as they navigate heavy anti aircraft fire. They relay a four ship mission toward a Japanese cruiser and suffer losses while preserving their formation and lessons learned for future night and low altitude operations.
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