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America’s mechanic air force rewrites war in Sardinia
In an Italian theater village, US air service crews improvise tools and equipment from scrap to keep planes in the air. S/Sgt Amos A. Owen and others pack chutes on a screen-table, repair bombed mains, and build devices from junk. Their ingenuity fuels advancing air power and supports frontline fighters.
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Sardinia
Amos A. Owen
Okmulgee
Okla
War Department
Charles Lewis
Livingstone
Mont
Robert J. Simpkins
Dana, Ill
T/Sgt
Haskell Manley
Union City
Tenn
America
United States
AAF
Sgt
Manley
Sgt. Manley
Twelfth Air Force Command
Ernest C. Jones
Everton
Bennett C
U. S
Italy
Corsica
Africa
Joseph I. Disney
Gray
Legion of Merit
Fifteenth Air Force
Disney
Peter J. Cerasaro
Kingston
N. Y
Cerasaro
Berlin
la Senia
Jay J. Palmer
Medical Corps
Los Angeles
Calif
Rome
Mark W. Clark
Joseph R. Bowers
New Orleans
Col. Palmer
Air Force