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AIRCRAFT >> FIGHTERS >> P-40
Catalog Number:
1982.165
Location:
747 NEBRASKA AVE. 3RD FLOOR A WING HALL
Description:
These Pilots, Intergepted A Flight Of 21 Japanese Medium Bombers And 20 Fighters Over One Of Our Fields. They Shot Down 11 With 8 Possiblies. Seated On Fuselage Is Edmund Gass (6 Kills), Seated On Wing Are John Allison (8 Kills) And Roger Pryor (Kills).Standing: Joe Griffin, Mack Mitchell, John Hampshire (14 Kills) And Hollis Blackstone. Hampshire Was On His Way To Being The Leading Ace. Jumped By A Flight Of Zeros And Shot Down. Friendly Chinese Found Him Badly Wounded But He Died Soon After.