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Murphy was one of a very small number of volunteer pilots who, with their flight crews, started bombing at low altitudes in B-17 flying fortresses in the Southwest Pacific. The aircraft were flown at a 200-foot altitude and at 250 miles per hour at night. One-thousand pound bombs, equipped with four-to-five second fuses, were dropped from the B-17s. On March 3, 1943, the Japanese made a desperate move to re-supply their forces on New Guinea. Twenty-two...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0275945405
ISBN13:9780275945404
Release Date:May 1993
Publisher:Praeger
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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