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About 100 miles out they passed a great covey of Jap planes which were heading for the Hornet's task force. Later they found the Jap ships-but to get to them they had to fly 75 miles with Zeros buzzing around their heads...
...Zero attacked Gus Widhelm-Jap aviators are trained to attack the squadron leader. "I pulled my nose up," Widhelm says, "and put my bead just about half a cowling above him and held the fire right there until he flew into it. He burst into flames...
They were almost smack in the middle of the Jap task force. Lieut. "Benny" Moore, his bald, bowlegged, Texas flight officer, led the others in, and Widhelm had to watch his attack theories from a raft. His main idea: the only way to escape anti-aircraft fire and yet make a hit is to start the dive higher than the books say, end it lower. On top of that, he would make the plane oscillate most of the way down so as not to be a fixed target...
...bomber, droning through the Arctic sky one day last week, spotted a Japanese freighter where no Jap freighter ought to be. Said the Navy's laconic communiqué: "The ship was left burning and was later seen to sink." The Navy offered no conjecture as to what the ship was doing 110 miles north and east of Kiska, in the Bering...
...bombed another cargo ship on the same day). Possible explanation for the B-25's victim being where she was: she was trying to slip into Kiska from the north, in the fog-shrouded Bering Sea where U.S. planes would be less likely to see her. But other Jap cargo ships were luckier. At least two in the past fortnight have landed supplies for the Jap force which still clings to the tail of the Aleutians. On their next raid U.S. pilots, who had been having their own way over Kiska Harbor and who had begun to hope that...