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...Dive-Bomber...
...bridge, Executive Officer Roosevelt saw a gunner whose pants were rolled up, told him to get them down to avoid flash burns from enemy fire. The gunner had a bead on a bomber and could not comply; so Roosevelt unrolled one pants leg for him. At that moment a bomb fragment removed the gunner's other leg; Roosevelt suffered a slight hand wound. Big Pancho gave the gunner morphine, applied a tourniquet, lugged him below to sick bay. Says Reynolds: His crew worship the guy. They say he's terrific in combat...
Each of the twin-engined enemy fighters seemed to carry four rocket-guns which were fired at a 2,000-yd. range, well beyond the effective range of the bomber's heavy machine guns. Peaslee added: "For the first 200 yards the rockets left a trail of smoke and appeared to be gaining momentum. When they exploded, they were twice as big as any flak, and I've seen plenty of flak...
...Reims raid Navigator Davisson had plotted his course by dead reckoning; he and Pilot Iverson had only one objective-to bring their close-packed bomber formation to a predetermined spot called the I.P. (Initial Point). Then the bombardier took over...
Married. Marion Wick Kelly, 26, widow of the late, famed U.S. Army Air Forces Captain Colin Purdie Kelly Jr., bomber of the Jap battleship Haruna; and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) John Watson Pedlow, 35, peacetime chemical engineer (American Viscose Corp.); in Crozierville, Pa. The mother of three-year-old Colin III ("Corky," nominated for West Point by President Roosevelt in a letter to the U.S. President of 1956), observed: ". . . You can never forget the past. . . . But . . . life will and must go on ... while you need not deliberately seek new ties you must not erect false barriers against them. . . . Lieut. Pedlow will...