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Aboard ship on way to States by Carr Hooper

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  • Two, three, four-as fast as I could count to fifty-six in teirs at 10,000-12,000 feet against and in a cloud bank. Tips of wings, noses, tails of another formation higher and to the right. Hundreds of planes. Close formations, closer than the Japs ever flew. Wings overlapping, tail to head, and they still roared higher in the cloud. They’re close, closer now overhead, and clearly now we saw in silhouette the squared wing tips, the heavy short bodies of planes we’d never seen—shipboard, carrier planes! “American planes!”, a great joyous cry went up from a thousand eager throats. They came on, hundreds of them, black and threatening against the sky, and yet no alarm was sounded and the aircraft guns were dumb. But no, the pop, pop, of guns to the south, and in the south over the bay and piers and in the heart of Japanese defense hundreds of other planes had arrived from another direction and were peeling, diving on Japanese strongholds and positions. They were by scores, countless and
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