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Memories of the September 21, 1944 air raid by Carr Hooper

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  • Air Raid Sept 21 1944 Nine months, two years and half of constant drumming overhead of Japonese zero fighters two motored bombers and transports, volumes and volumes of idle fruitless stupid humans and speculation, and at last an air alert signal. A week of this alert and on Sept 20 afternoon at five oclock this alert called off—written next day, Sept. 22 1944 Nine oclock and a friend is cutting my hair after I had finished his. He steps outside for a minute and calls back to me— “Wonder where all those Jap planes are going— I step outside. One,
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