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Remembering Johnson in the Lae Air Battle Aces Recount
Saburo Sakai recalls the June 9 1942 air clash at Lae in which his Zero engaged U S bombers and he says a cloud saved Lyndon B Johnson aboard the Heckling Hare. Johnson won a Silver Star for gallantry and avoided capture after the plane vanished into cloud.
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Tokyo
Saburo Sakai
Texas
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Sakai
Johnson
South Pacific
Navy
Congress
Japan
Hare
Pacific
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lae
New Guinea
U.S
Martin Caidin
Edward Hymoff