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...Wounded Go On. Navy Corsairs and a barrage of ack-ack saved the jeep carriers from damage. Out of the setting sun later that day came another strike. It was met by Corsairs and Wildcats, and Army P-38s flying from Leyte. This time some of the Japs got through, although seven were destroyed. Among the men wounded by bomb fragments was the boss, General Dunckel. He got himself bandaged up, said he saw no reason to rule himself out of the play...
...Southwest Pacific as a gunnery instructor, Dick Bong was in battle again. He had led Lightning fighters on a 1,500-mile raid to Balikpapan, the longest fighter operation ever attempted in the theater. Over Borneo 20 Jap planes had jumped U.S. heavy bombers. Bong and his P-38s piled in and drove them off. Instructor Bong's personal score: two Japanese planes...
Since Johnson flies a P47 Thunderbolt, Army airmen can continue their argument about the relative merits of P-38s and P-475. Johnson flies against the Germans and Bong against the Japs; most airmen lately have been willing to concede that the Germans provide tougher opposition...
...Russian, whose father was a Czech, quit the construction business in Oregon to become a Regular Army Air Corpsman and specialize in photo work. As a captain in 1942 he went to Australia, commanded the first P-38 squadron to be used in his kind of work. The P-38s then had more bugs in them than a doughboy's blanket. The high, hot flying of recon work burned them up! Some of Pop's Lightnings exploded in midair...
...Million a Week. The work is no picnic. The improved P-38s which Pop's boys fly are unarmed; guns and ammunition slow them up too much. Photo recon pilots have to depend on speed and cunning to escape...