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...decorated them with paper and any sort of bright bit that stuck out of the rubble. Pfc. William Horton hung on one tree a tiny celluloid doll-one of its eyes had been punched out. His buddies called the doll "Purple Heart Mary." To the accompaniment of bombs and ack-ack Major Charles Fife puffed out tunes on an ocarina, and the men hummed carols...
...plane armed with four 500-lb. bombs. While other strikes were being set up, he flew back to the Jap task force's course, picked out the battleship as his target. A low-level run with his flying boxcar in the face of concentrated ack-ack resulted in two misses, two direct hits. But the 500-pounders were as flea bites to the armored monster, and the enemy force drove...
Unnerved Gunnery. Stevens retired beyond ack-ack range and hung around to plot the Japs' course for the Mitchell medium bombers and Thunderbolt fighters then taking off from Mindoro. At 7 p.m. the air-sea battle was on. U.S. air attacks spoiled the Japs' gunnery and left them with no stomach for slow bombardment runs which might have inflicted serious damage on Mindoro installations. Instead, while being chivvied from the air, the Japs steamed up & down the coast, taking pot shots as they went, doing negligible damage ashore...
...Wounded Go On. Navy Corsairs and a barrage of ack-ack saved the jeep carriers from damage. Out of the setting sun later that day came another strike. It was met by Corsairs and Wildcats, and Army P-38s flying from Leyte. This time some of the Japs got through, although seven were destroyed. Among the men wounded by bomb fragments was the boss, General Dunckel. He got himself bandaged up, said he saw no reason to rule himself out of the play...
...Nazis were said to have stripped the ack-ack guns from ruined cities, e.g., Berlin, to reinforce the oil sites. In any event, Leipzig was more viciously defended from the ground than Berlin had ever been. Eighty-six U.S. planes failed to get back to their bases. Some landed safely elsewhere, but at week's end 40 bombers and 13 fighters were still missing...