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Local FlyerA Member OfFamous UnitLt. Bdward C. Hoey Of Wal. nut Street With “Bomb-I* • •er Barons In Pacific(Special to The Newm)Headquarters. 13th AAF. Southwest Pacific, Sept. 0—PJrat Lieu-tenant ' Townsend Marcus of Charlestown, W. Va., recently took part in the GOOth mission of the famous £omber Barons, a B-2i Liberator unit in the 13th AAF. Lieutenant Marcus is a first pilot in one of the-heavy bombardment outfit and Hew on the historic strike over Y:ij island, key Japanese air - and naval .base in the western Carolines.Smashing at supply and dispersal areas, our big: Liberators started many fires and caused cxplo-sions.. 13th AAF officials rate the mission one of the most successful against this island fortress.The /’Bomber Barons'* arc vet- crans of Pacific warfare. Stationed at Hickam Field at the time of the sneak-.Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, this unit has since had an enviable combat record, hitting', vital enemy installations during I the campaigns in the Solomons, Central Pacific, and Northern New Guinea. It shared, in the pro-invasion bombardment of Bi«k and Nocmloor * islands and helped to reduce the strongholds of Habuul, Truk, fvJid' YVolcai.The other members of the crew •include:1■' Second- Lieutenant Richard H. Snider/, co-pilot of 34.7 Shawnee terrace. Louisville, K\.Second 4 Lieutenant' Edward C. Hoey,.v navigator .of 70 Walnut street, Naugatuck;'4 Conn.- ... ^*''Second Lieutenant Edmunds A. .fcuchlko, bombardier of '15 11th avenue southwest, Rochester. Minn.Technical Sergeant Clyde J. Simpson, engineer of 3602 Skiles avenue., Kansas City, Mo.'Staff Sergeant Victor L. Darby, assistant engineer _ of 130 Ash street, Pelly, Texas.* Technical Sergeant Ernest L.. Morgan, radio operator of Route 0, Bakerefield, Cal.Staff Sergeant Lonnie J. Gibson, assistant radio operator of 612 Ramsey, street, Alcoa, Tenn.. Staff Sergeant Marvin V. Dooley, top turret gunner of Hopland, Cal.Staff Sergeant Robert K. Fon-tem, waist gunner of Colchester,III.1SJ
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Naugatuck Daily News
Naugatuck, Connecticut, US
Tue, Sep 05, 1944
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