Word: rammer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighter. Other Japs pressed in for the kill, but the staggering bomber fought them off and righted itself 3,000 feet below the formation, only to be crashed by another fighter. The Cabin pulled out again at 5,000 with one machine gun still firing; a third Jap suicide rammer sent it plummeting into Tokyo Bay in a pall of black smoke. In its seven-minute agony the Cabin had shot down eight other attackers. Air Force officers recommended posthumous decorations for all the crew, and the Medal of Honor for the Cabin's commander, Major John E. Krause...