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H ellolivers on the Wing strikes were launched between air raids which had commenced at 0400 and continued intermittently until about noon when an unusually large force of enemy planes attacked the formation. ' Shortly after noon one of the high-flying Zeke dive bombers picked out the Hannah as his particular choice for initiation into the reckless Japanese fraternal order. Peeling out of the sun the Kamikaze set his course straight for the Hannah in spite of the blistering fire of every gun she Couldtbrmg to bear. Incredibly he came-through the fire of twelve five-inch and nu- merous 40mm and 20mm batteries until a direct hit exploded the plane in mid-air about l000 feet directly overhead. Souvenir hunters had plenty of material as a ten-foot section of the fuselage and the left wing fell to the flight deck while smaller debris fluttered to different sections of the ship. Fire from the wing section was quickly extinguished 'and the Hannah con- tinued to fight off invading airmen. Flyers returning from strikes were pre- vented from landing by the twisting and turning Hannah's evasive action. Two Jap planes swooping below flight deck height in a frantic effort to get at the big ships, were pursued by fighter planes and finally knocked down

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struck quickly and unexpectedly as the fighters returned from raids over enemy-held portions of Luzon. An F6F circled low into the wind and landed on the Hannah's flight deck. lt was a perfectly normal landing culminating another successful foray against the Japanese Philippine Air Force-the hook bit into the arresting wire and the plane's forward motion slowed under the smooth, controlled action of the arresting gear, Suddenly, and without warning, the belly tank dropped to the deck, bathing the entire plane in a bright shower of flaming gasoline. Rescue squads armed with fog nozzles and foam equipment, covered the flaming Hellcat with cooling sprays that quickly choked off volatile gasoline vapors while an asbestos-clad fire-fighter broke through to rescue the pilot. Throug-h the long hours of the night, doctors, hospital corpsmen and the chaplain were at his side but the terrific heat had been beyond human endurance and burial services were held on the hangar deck elevator on t-he 20th as a flag-draped coffin splashed once in the deep waters off Luzon to join a wingmate lost in a parachute mishap on the same day. Unfavorable weather delayed operations until the 25th when the Hannah's planes again took to the air attacking shipping in the .Manila area. The TBM Avengers Carry 1,000-Pound Daisy Cutters to Support McA'rthfm0's Luzon T1 oops .V ,mmN, .mh

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