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since August, 1943.Tech. Sgt.. Hcrechel Ij. Cameron, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther W. Cameron, Baxterville, has flown 51 combat missions over Italy and southern France with the Mediterranean’s oldest medium bomber group of B-25 Mitchells. Sergeant Cameron, who took bombardier's training overseas, went overseas as a turret gunner and flew approximately half his missions in that position. He has earned the Air Medal with five oak leaf clusters for attacks on such targets as Toulon, Marseilles, Bologna, Florence, the Brenner pass and rail bridges in the Po Valley. Though he has participated In no single engine flights or crashes, Sergeant Cameron has returned from missions with his Mitchell holed as many as seven times, and once had to make an emergency landing when the control cables of his plane were cut by flak. He Is presently based on the island of Corsica with his Mitchell group, first AAF unit to be cited by both the American and French governments. Sergeant Cameron is a graduate of Lumberton high school, where he was a student before entering the AAF in July, 1942. Graduated from armament an/1 aerial gunnery schools, he lias been overseas nine months.)
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Hattiesburg American
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US
Thu, Jan 25, 1945
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