Word: catasauqua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also missing in the Southwest Pacific this week was Lieut. Colonel Thomas J. Lynch, Army pilot from Catasauqua, Pa., who had rolled up 20 confirmed victories over the Japs. But other aces were carrying on; new aces were being dealt from the U.S. deck. An Air Forces report disclosed that Captain Richard R. Bong (TIME, Aug. 9), famed Lightning pilot, had boosted his score to 25, pressing hard on the high mark of 26 shared by Marine Majors Joe Foss and Gregory Boyington (and Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in World...