Word: 97s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flying Tigers at the chief A.V.G. air base in China. He stayed on there with U.S. Army pilots when the A.V.G. was disbanded -ate with them, slept with them, flew with them while they strafed Jap ground troops all over eastern China-dodged Japanese ack-ack, dog-fought I-97s and Zeros, bombed ships, docks and factories up and down the Yangtze...
...engines roar louder. Behind us our peashooters are attacked by Zeroes and new I-97s I see six go at Sawyer. He makes a head-on run at the leader, pours in a couple of bursts. The I-97, camouflaged with bright green paint, falls away in smoke. Five others do a quick flip to get on Charlie's tail, but he dives and pulls rapidly away and then comes up again on the corner of our tails...
...went past under our wings. By now the boats were growing thicker. Great patches in the river seemed alive. We grew tense in our seats watching for the target, watching for rising planes, watching for ack-ack fire, peering up into the sky above us for Japanese Zeros and 97s...