Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mindful of Germany's prodigious efforts to go underground, airmen could not entirely dismiss the possibility. But they had the last word: the bombs fell & fell, the invasion armies made ready. Whenever it pleased, the Navy could again train its guns on the Jap homeland. The war of words did not, for one moment, interrupt or slacken the fighting...
...fighter pilot radioed that he was going down in a small bay on the Japanese coast. A PBY Dumbo received his message, sighted him, but got hit by several Jap antiaircraft shells. The Dumbo retreated and radioed for fighter cover. While the fighters strafed the Jap gun emplacement, the PBY landed on the water, picked up the pilot...
...Mustang pilot was rescued less than three miles off Honshu in broad daylight by a surfaced submarine. Jap picket boats dared not venture out: submarine and pilot were protected by a circling Superdumbo...
...Superdumbo, assigned to keep radio and visual watch for airmen going down, spotted three life rafts in the water. Already in contact with a submarine, the Superdumbo passed the word. But two Jap picket boats headed for the life rafts. The Superdumbo dropped four bombs which missed. Another Superdumbo showed up with two PB4Y (Liberator) Dumbos. They strafed and sank the Japanese craft, then guided the submarine to the survivors...
...shot down in enemy waters can be rescued. One P-51 pilot was caught by Jap PT boats after they had damaged a Dumbo and driven off a submarine. Shore guns killed another fighter pilot only 100 yards off Chichi Jima in a Higgins boat after it had been dropped to him. But, between June 1944 and June 1945, the Navy alone saved 2,100 of its pilots and crewmen...