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Navy Pilot Earns Second Submarine Sink As Distinction
Ensign Donald F Mason of Rochester Minnesota becomes the first Navy pilot to sink two Axis submarines in separate patrols and receives a second Distinguished Flying Cross along with an officer’s commission. Three subs were sunk or presumed sunk today, with two in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific, bringing total Allied submarine losses to 28. A Panama ship was torpedoed off the Atlantic coast, with 12 crew rescued after 45 hours adrift.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Donald Francis Mason
Navy
Mason
Atlantic
Pacific
U. S
Norfolk
New York
South Atlantic
Elizabeth City
N.C
M. H. Simons
Fifth Naval District
Ensign Mason
Rochester
William Tepuni
Naval Reserve
San Francisco
Calif
Royal E. Ingersoll
Tepuni
James Valentine Edmundson
Santa Monica
California
Knox
Edmundson
West Coast
Pearl Harbor
Marshall Islands
Wake Island
Hawaiian