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"1909th Engineers Aviation Battalion (Negro) aboard LST 683." |
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"Pilots of a U.S. Army Air Force fighter squadron, credited with shooting down 8 of the 28 German planes destroyed in dogfights over the new Allied beachheads south of Rome, on Jan. 27, talk over the day's exploits at a U.S. base in the Mediterranean theater. Negro members of this squadron, veterans of the North African and Sicilian campaigns, were formerly classmates at a university in the southern U.S." |
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"Lt. Andrew D. Marshall, pilot in a Negro fighter group of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force had his plane shot up by flak during a strafing mission over Greece before the Allied invasion. When he came down all that was left of the plane was his engine and himself. But he only suffered from some cuts and bruises. Greeks hid him from the Nazis, then directed him to the British forces when they parachuted into Greece." |
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"1st Lt. Lee Rayford, who has returned to the United States from Italy where he served with the 99th Fighter Squadron. The nature of his assignment here has not been announced." |
