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With five hours' fuel aboard, Navy Ordnanceman Bill Falls, 22, took off one fine day last month from San Diego's La Mesa Airport in a Taylorcraft borrowed from his best friend, Parachute Rigger Charles Schrieber. A good amateur pilot, Bill had a 24-hour liberty and planned to spend it in Phoenix with his recently widowed mother...
...Firing on Us." "The plane was Hying 180 knots at 8,000 feet," the commander, Lieut. Richard Fischer, said a few hours later, "when ordnance [i.e., his aviation ordnanceman] reported a Russian plane. 'I have an aircraft! It's firing on us!' I took immediate evasive action. A hail of machine-gun bullets hit the fuselage and port wing, and injured three or four men. We had no opportunity to return fire...
With him was Radioman Gene Aldrich, 22, a husky, gabby, self-confident Missouri farm boy, and Ordnanceman Tony Pastula, shy, dreamy, sandy-haired son of Polish immigrants. After CCC camps in the West, they had both joined the Navy to see the world. But with 41-year-old Dixon, whose first hitch began in 1919, the Navy was a business. He took charge as soon as his beloved bomber sank from sight...
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