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                  <text>94TH vi'-.nT’pT- &lt;^&gt;AngpN
1st Finyrrn? group
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July 13, 1943.

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Wilson, Anderson, Sager, Jackson, Herr, Fell, Niles, Holcombe, Newsome,, and
*4 hours
Bower, each carrying 1 500 pound'bomb (Infct.'and .045), took off'at 084^
to dive bomb enemy convoys in the central part of eastern C'ICIIY. Theyr fl
flew
at 7,000 feet and'dropped .»mbs at 2,000 feet-over (1) 8 trucks just west
,ot Of
?tward
Ryr.4T.pnT0, destroying 5 of1 them at 1045 hours, (2) a short distance eastw;
on the same road on 6 tiu.acs, damaging all of them at 1048 hours, and(3)
,) &lt;on
3 or 4 trucks just east'o"’TDOINA, damaging all of them. They straffed3 3 or
4 trucks at- c. CAwrTv'-.. damaging all of them. No enemy aircraft observed.
No flak encountered..
11 scattered units of trucks observed moving eastward
in northeast central r“’ TY. Route: rANTEII.RP.TA, thence to FOR^O ’!?'«n0CTE,
thence to CUT'..’I
' . , phence to F.nGALBTTO, thence to ADRAI’C, t:.e..ce to
BRONTE, thence to TRCItJA,'thence to S. CATERINA, and"out by MARINA, thence to
base, weather: to and over target: CAVU. It. laitz landed at t.-a.C hours
because his Yhedl ’“ell noor would not close. He took off again at CTL5 hours
but returned and landed at 1040 hours because he could not find the formation.
Its. Holcombe and Newsome landed at 1045 hours as spares. The rest of the
formation landed at 1133 hoars.
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JUVh faOMBlNG N18B10N - ±4 P-3bs,'Its. Stepnan,'Schulce, Lentz, Jacoosen, i Brow:, Herr, nibble, .Sokol, Fell, Kipper, Pace, Cogswell,'Miller, and Sager,
, "took off at .1432 hours to dive bomb the railroad junction,'station, and the

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■' ’destroying 10 and' damaging 10. -/The f oroatidn5 to^ffed?.entered ;tiuaks .
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around RE°UTTANO and damaged 5 of them. Flakl * a'bdut'15 puffs seen near TltOINA. f

F-Lum* ‘ " ^d return to base.
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The spares','Its.' Piller And i’i^'er,-:;iieturned and landed

The re«t of the formation landed at’ 1736"bours.

RANDOLPH A. RR(7N,'
.Captain, Air Corps,
Intelligence Office:

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                <text>A collection of Mission reports from James' combat flights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jump to other sections of the collection:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5"&gt;James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6"&gt;His Early Life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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