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Advance Pacific Base Tales and Frontline Perils
Wake Field Correspondent relays dramatic vignettes from the Pacific front. A general's tent is shredded by shrapnel yet he remains unharmed, a transport crew battles icy mountains and zero visibility, Lt Col Robert Parham narrowly survives a 500 pound bombing run, and five men hide in a brand new bake oven during strafing. Locals recount the New Zealand Sheila letter about a Private named Flash Gordon seeking matrimony after the outfit moved from a British post.
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Robert Parham
Ninth Air Force
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