Word: jernstedt
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Pilots Kenneth Jernstedt and William Reed popped out of a cloud into the hot blue sky over Burma. Below them, on the Jap-held airdrome at Moulmein, 25 or more enemy planes were lined up in tempting rows. The two "Flying Tigers" clawed the field with incendiary bullets, and Jernstedt dropped small fire bombs which he had packed into his flare release. The field was a junk heap of burning, exploding Jap planes when Jernstedt and Reed gunned their P-405 away, over the Salween River...
...Dupuoy tackled the first wave of 27 bombers. Eight Jap fighters charged him. He blew up one fighter at 17,000 ft., then his ammunition ran out and he scooted for the field, on which bombs were already dropping. When he landed, a bomb fragment creased his right arm. Jernstedt, who had gone up to help him, got a bloody face from a shattered windshield, but landed his plane safely...
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