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Mission 34
April
12, 1943 Boy this
has been a long day. We were awakened this
morning at 3:30, had breakfast at 4, briefed
at 5 and off the ground at 6 to bomb a
convoy off the coast of Tunis.
I'd
like to have the son-of-a-gun by the nap of
the neck that planned the route. We can't find
out but whoever it was he sure had his head
way up. He put us right between the two most
heavily defended cities in North Africa, Bizerte
and Tunis at 15,000 feet, and they threw up
everything but the kitchen sink. A navigator
in another squadron got a piece of flak through
the neck and was killed instantly. For the
first time I saw 20 MM cannon shells bursting
from every enemy fighter. Besides all that
we missed the target completely. Spent the
rest of the day sleeping, playing volleyball,
and just got back from a show.
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