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Findlay lieutenant Navigates ||Crippled Bomber to Own Target* O *o o oo o ©• First Lieutenant William M. Jaqua, 21. of Findlay, a B-17 Fly* ins Fortress navigator, navigated the bomber to an aircraft engine factory at Frankfurt, Gt£ many, in a “one-plane attack after it had been crippled by flak enroute to a target at Kurn* berg, according to a dispatch from an Eighth air force bomber station in England to theRemiblican-Courier.With a heavy bomb load andflak damaged engines the Fort ress lost altitude rapidly. Afterthe bomber turned out of its formation Lt. Jaqua sighted the city of Frankfurt and guided the pilot toward an area of vital factories and rail yards there on which to drop the bombs. The enlisted bombardier. Technical Sergeant Arthur B. Ayres, 25. of Memphis. Tenn., sighted his aiming point and released the bombs. An aerial camera carried aboard photographed the impacts of the “one-plane raid and indicated hits on the aircraft engine factory, an important Eighth air force target.Lt. Jaqua is the son of *Ar. and Mrs. Leo Jaqua, of 700 Balsley avenue. He graduated from Findlay high school in 1941 and was employed as a stock clerk for the Buckeye Traction Ditcher company before entering the AAF in 1943. He holds the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters for “meritorious achievement’' and is a member of the 34th bomber group, a unit of the Third air division, the division cited by the president for its now historic England-Africa shuttle bombing of Messer-schmitt aircraft plants in Regensburg, Germany.Lieutenant Jaqua is enroute home, having completed his missions.LT. WILLIAM M. JAQUAc.TO AID RECONVERSIONin1*1arm va1 1 *1 ofSmaller War Plain* CorporationMaking Survey of Plants in Area, McPheron SaysA mail survey of war and civilian operations of smaller metal-working plants in pie Find lav area to assist them Th obtaining war contracts and later converting to civilian production is being conducted by the Smaller War Plants corporation. Ira -B McPheron, Lima SWPC district manager, has announced.The request, to approximately3.VnFaaBctlt;n. ll
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Findlay Republican Courier
Findlay, Ohio, US
Sat, Apr 28, 1945
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