Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Silver Star. Army, 661; Navy, 117; Marines, 1; Coast Guard, 4. Sample case: Captain Nathaniel Blanton of the 19th Bombardment Group, who, leading eight planes, intercepted nine Japanese bombers and six Zero fighters over Java. He shot down the Jap flight leader and by his own leadership helped to make a perfect attack...
Killer. They sent Buzz to Australia to fetch more planes that were not there. By the time some P-40s arrived Java was being invaded. Charles ("Bud") Sprague and Buzz were told to flip a coin to decide who would go to Java, who would remain in Australia to teach some green pilots just arrived from the U.S. Sprague went to Java, where he was killed. "You won the toss?" a newsman asked Buzz. "No, I lost. Bud Sprague was my friend," said Buzz, his blue-green eyes ablaze...
...Group joined the original 19th in Java. Casualties were heavy-the 7th lost two commanding officers in a week-so the two groups were re-formed into the new 19th...
...been quite a year for the air shock troops. For a while the war was Japan v. the 19th. There had been times when the group was so badly battered-in the Philippines, in Java, in Australia-that not a plane could be got off the ground. But the Flying Fortresses over Europe and Africa fly better today because of what the 19th learned...
There was a Fortress radioman named Warrenfels who heard that a radio operator was urgently needed on Bataan. He volunteered to go, boarded a ship trying to run the Jap blockade. The ship was sunk 200 miles off Java. Another enlisted man who is no longer with the 19th is 19-year-old Private Arvid Hegdahl, tail gunner of a Flying Fortress. After he shot down a Zero his leg was almost blown off, but he continued to shout encouragement to other members of the crew. When the time came to evacuate Java he had to be left...