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...flight of two medium bombers were given the assignment of breaking apart a beached boat in Kiska Harbor the early part of 1943 by dropping 500 lb. bombs at extremely low altitude. A bomb was dropped and hit the target...
...lead plane released no bombs because the pilot (flight leader) neglected to check the safety switch. "The" bomb which hit the target was released by the copilot of the wing ship, the same copilot who received no decoration...
...third shot carried away a privy on the end of the pier, containing, I think, the night watchman. We hit the target about 25 times. We kept it up about a quarter-hour before the sleepy Italians realized somebody was shooting at them. They didn't do very much except fire some star shells seven miles out to sea. As we slid out they got a light on us. A couple of shells fell close. Next day they claimed to have sunk...
Thereafter Ensign Burk concentrated on a particular target: Jap landing barges. Soon he found himself a champ for the second time in his life. His record: 13 Jap barges sent to the bottom, an assist on a 14th...
...Never Scooped. White-thatched Clem Lane has been doing Oxie pieces for about six years. Oxie came into being when Mayor Edward J. Kelly (ever since a target of Oxie's meat ax) was trying to legalize Chicago's large population of bookmakers. The Daily News editorialized against it, and Lane, who knew his way around the handbooks, invented Oxie as a wiseacring mouthpiece...