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...came out of the floatplane base on Poporang Island-there were six of us, five P-38s and one Vought Corsair-and we spotted the destroyer. It turned broadside to me. We were firing our four .50-caliber machine guns and one cannon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Scratch One Tinpot | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

Three weeks earlier, Lanphier's squadron had whipped into Poporang Island with six planes, wrecked twelve float-Zeros, disabled a destroyer in an attack so fierce and low that Barber left three feet of his wing tip in the destroyer's funnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - HEROES: The Younger Generation | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

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