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Bob Johnson, the. other leading :w-?, tells of one of his battles:“We were on our way home when someone yelled over the radio, ‘four Jerries diving out of the sun'—two of them were coming for me and shooting, so I hollered ‘break’ and we relied over, diving for fhc deck. The Germans behind me were really shooting away. Their shots were bursting all around my cockpit and wings, and believe me, those 20 mm. shells don't look healthy coming that close. Those Jerries stayed behind us hill we reached ihe English coast. ... I didn’t likerunning like that, but had to. I got back for that one a couple of days later, though. It was an FWI90 and he blew up after rny first burst.”fiol. Laurence K. GiHahan Col. ilham H. Stovall■World War I ace s. •‘retreads” in this war, see experiences like their own of. 26 years ago in the stories of lodav’s ETO aces.While they don’t pretend to compare their Spads- with Lightnings, Thunderbolts and Mustangs, Cols. Laurence K. Callahan and William H. Stovall (above) figure the action they saw against Fokkers in the last war pioneered all this business of aces. Col. Callahan, of Chicago, intelligence officer for Eighth Fighter Command, was credited with destroying five Germans in World War 1 and Col. Stovall, of Stovall, Miss, now Eighth Fighter 'Command Personnel officer,accounted for seven of the Kaiser’s aircraft.
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Northern Ireland Stars and Stripes
Belfast, Ulster, GB
Thu, Mar 09, 1944
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