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Aboard ship on way to States by Carr Hooper

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  • …join broken formations of waiting circling empty bombers whose job was done and in closed formations they moved toward home—their home and every one carried our prayers that they’d reach there safely. The first of our raids had happened and we know they’d be back and they were back next day and succeeding days. No more rumors. Hundreds of planes came back to attack their enemy, and ours. Their splendid disregard of danger, their covering each other, their perfect handling of their machines and themselves in the face of death thrilled us always. We watched Navy fighters blast zeros until the Jap airforce was completely wiped out. We saw planes and men hurdled to death. We saw planes ours plunge into the earth and hit by shells of the Japs. We lived to see our great Army Bombers wipeout what the Navy had left and we saw these gaints of the air battered and we sorrowed as they too paid the supreme price. We remember tears that day when a brave fortress died overhead and its crew became floating targets for thousands of small bore guns and riddled bodies settled to earth just outside our reach. All this we saw after September 21, but never were we thrilled and exalted as that day in the first minutes. Two planes, always two, rolling and covering each other, pulled out of a power dive over a near by airfield. On the upward climb, they swept over Santo Tomos Internment camp, and as they went up and over there was clearly visible, shining magnificently, stirring our very souls was the starred insigna of hope and courage and freedom---the United States. America had returned.
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