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...19th has had its moments of humor, most of them the kind that come to men when death has been cheated. Lieut. Jack Adams of Anadorko, Okla. was often the subject of such grim humor. Jack Adams, now a major, sank a transport and shot down three Zeros, but had to make a forced landing in a water-covered ricefield with two motors shot out. He and his crew, three of whom were wounded, returned three weeks later by boat, oxcart, automobile, train and plane. Captain Clarence E. McPherson, later killed in Australia, once landed on an airdrome before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: One Year with the 19th | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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