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Lasted For HoursMitchell bomber crews at this base opened their Christmas day raids with a pre-dawn mission which lasted for hours, returned Ar sandwiches and soft drinks and Took to the air again at 11 a. m. for a bombing and strafing mission.Flying in The Spider,” flown by Capt. Mac C. Norwood, of Wichita Falls. Tex., I saw the second mis-^pn pour several tons of 500-pound •mbs on the target and then head into the beach with all guns firing. Another formation reported that one of our bombs caused an unusually large explosion.Heavy bombers which had struck just before we did, left the Jap-• ese fighter strips covered withneavv clouds of smoke and there was hardly 20 square feet of the cape area which was without a bomb crater.We didn’t see a sign of life on the cape, and only a few deserted native huts.Aother crew’ members of The Spider were 2nd Lt. Sam L. Norris, of Austin. Tex., co-pilot and Sergeants-Gunners Edward Mas-per, Spokane, Wash., and Donald Sciscento, New Bedford, Mass.
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Port Arthur News
Port Arthur, Texas, US
Tue, Dec 28, 1943
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