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...Eighth Fighter Command: Captain Walker Mahurin, 25, has the highest U.S. score in the theater: 13 kills. Twice he downed three Nazis in a day; twice he hit a daily double in his Thunderbolt. Captain Joe Meyer alone fought off a dozen Germans, safely shepherded home two crippled F-38s and a wounded Fortress. Lieut. Colonel Eugene Roberts believes in tight formations. His group's score: 36 Germans destroyed, seven U.S. planes lost...
...38s had preceded us over the airport by a matter of seconds, diving to strafe the field. I peered out the side blister as we made our run and counted 14 Jap planes burning, bursting outward like brilliant red buds and then flowering into orange and black coronas...
...famed Army pilot told his superiors after a fighting tour that "if you have got a hundred AT-6s [advanced trainers] you are a hell of a lot better off than if you have only twelve P-38s [Lightnings]. . . . We found that when we got into the low numbers we took a beating." Many another fighter pilot reported that when his flight had as much as a two-plane superiority. over the enemy his advantage was disproportionately...
...Came over Palestine-Jericho, where the walls came tumbling down. I ought to make a good Sunday-School teacher when I get back and I think I will. . . . Met General Chennault day before yesterday and he sure is a swell egg. . . . We're the first of the P-38s over here...
...came out of the floatplane base on Poporang Island-there were six of us, five P-38s and one Vought Corsair-and we spotted the destroyer. It turned broadside to me. We were firing our four .50-caliber machine guns and one cannon...