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...preceded us over the airport by a matter of seconds, diving to strafe the field. I peered out the side blister as we made our run and counted 14 Jap planes burning, bursting outward like brilliant red buds and then flowering into orange and black coronas...
...only 70 miles of water from horn-shaped New Britain, which points at New Guinea. Liberators in one raid last week pounded the horn's point with 94 tons of bombs-a heavy raid for that theater. Kenney's fighters flew 250 miles from their base to strafe enemy shipping and installations in , the horn's curve. At the horn's far end stands Rabaul, the enemy's key position in the area and the logical climax of the General's blitz...
Flames shot into the air. Bullets began zinging around the heads of the spectators on the field-"as if some berserk machine gunner were trying to strafe the world," one spectator said later. A creeping curtain of flame covered the sagebrush desert for half a mile around the wreckage. Crash cars and ambulances stood by helplessly...
...need not have flown missions; in fact, he rarely went out on routine jobs. "But when the mission was going to be tough," said the pilots, "we could be sure Cheli would be out there with us." On Aug. 18 Cheli went out with them to bomb and strafe the Dagua airfield...
Norway. Explosions in Oslo harbor sank two ships, damaged two more. The powerful Norsk hydroelectric plant at Rjukan was blown up. German occupation forces used planes to hunt down and strafe civilians who daily fled over the rocky frontier into Sweden. Two more leading quislings were killed...