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...Copilot Victor Bartholomei was the squadron's only casualty. He lost an eye to German shrapnel over Bizerte. (Major John Toomey, one of three successive squadron commanders, was shot down near Naples and probably captured, but that was after he left the 513th...
Their 6-26 medium bomber, eight men aboard, set out last May to bomb Jap-held Rabaul. "We dropped our bombs on the runway and machine-gunned two bombers on the ground," said 2nd Lieut. Eugene D. Wallace of Los Angeles, the plane's copilot. "Antiaircraft fire was awfully heavy and ... we were hit. . . . The pilot said we would have to make a crash landing...
...staff in combat if it could be avoided, Pilot Lieut. John C. Summers dived toward the sea. At 50 feet the Fortress leveled off and shot for the land. Fifty-caliber bullets from the top turret sent one of the German fighters limping away. Two others attacked. The Fortress copilot sagged to the floor with a bullet in his shoulder. Jimmy Doolittle yanked his soft khaki cap down on his balding head, climbed into the copilot's seat. The gunners fought off two other Germans before the Fortress got clear and proceeded to its destination...
...only astonishing feature of this episode was the fact that General Doolittle was not flying the Fortress when it was attacked. Said one of his cronies in London, upon hearing that the copilot was wounded before General Doolittle took over: "I hope Jimmy didn't shoot the lad to get at the controls himself...
...least nine more. But U.S. airmen and especially Bomber Commander Ira Eaker were interested in something more than that the Fortresses had beaten off an attack against overwhelming odds. They were most interested in the fact that again all the Fortresses got home (although one carried a dead copilot, a grievously wounded commander...