THE PILOT REPORTS:" .. attacked a destroyer ..."
WARSHIP POUNDED: With the flames of Lakunai airdrome providing a holocaust-like background, a Japanese destroyer (DD) is attacked and damaged by a 1,000-pound demolition bomb. A large enemy minelayer (27) is strafed and bombed as the Mitchell completes its run over the outer fringes of Simpson Harbor. Note the "beehives" in the lower picture as a Mitchell wings away after attacking a minelayer. The Volcano isles in Simpson Harbor are, in reality, the center of the antiaircraft defenses for the shipping concentrations. In the background, burning ships may be seen. "I attacked a destroyer from bow to stern, dropping a 1,000-pound bomb. The destroyer was bracketed by the missile. I strafed both the destroyer and a transport beyond it." (From narrative report by Lt. Jack S. Saunders.) |
  
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