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American Air Force P-40 Ace Fights Jap Convoy at Subic Bay
Lt. Col. W. E. Dyess recounts a day of dives against a Japanese convoy in Subic Bay and Grand Island. He details sinking a transport, damaging a second ship, and strafing warehouses and barges while fending off anti aircraft fire. Dyess and crew return with losses but recover, amid a battlefield glow and the peril of night operations.
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W. E. Dyess
Bataan
Subic, Bay
Bataar
Terrece
Les Colon
Brican Air Force
Amercan
Dyess
Dow Aber
South Ching
Jeps
Atukinge
Sujo Bay
Grand Island
Itrande
Marand Island
Shorty
Bataan Field
Cabcaben Field
Joe Moore
Kinosh
Sam Grashia
Spokane
Wash
Mariveles Field
Sam
Subic Bay
Kibosh
Harald H. George
Bay
John Burns
Mindanao
Subic
George
Mariveles
Air Force
Burns
Sutz
Toj
Broadway