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THESE TWO GOT SEVEN r I . 1 1 . 1 ,n ' 5 no one claimed any special achievements. There I found myself sitting on a Nip's tail, so I give him a squirt and the son of a gun dis-in-te-gratesf' If one found himself in a tight spot, a couple of our guys would come in on the Nips, out of nowhere, and of course that was that. Whatever inner reactions these boys may have experienced in the swift mad violence of that air battle, they sound here like a ball team that has just drubbed the daylights out of the other side in the first game of the season. The roster of their names is out of the grab-bag of nationalities that went into the American melting pot. Here they are, the winning team, as they appear in the photograph on pp. 46-47: Seyfferle-Fizalkowski-Frendberg-Buie-Bartol-Whitmore-Fleming-Hanks-Rucinski -Iohnson-Rolfsen. They hail from cities, towns and farms. From Ohio-California-North Dakota-Georgia-Wisconsin-Kansas-Oregon-Idaho-Vermont-Illinois-New Iersey. Take Hanks-Lt. Eugene R. Hanks of Gibbs, Idaho-it was the first time he had ever seen a plane with the rising sun, the meat ball insignia. It was the first time he had to put into practice the precept that had been so hard to swallow during his many months of training, Kill, or get killed. Well, today Lt. Hanks shot down five enemy fighter planes, to become an ace in less than five minutes. From now on his squadron mates will be referring to him as Five-shot Hanks. Captain Stump gets a message from the skipper of the Yorktown' NICE WORK SAVE SOM , ' 1 E FOR US NEXT TIME . --CAPTAIN CLARK. And from the Captain of the battleship Alabama: NICE GOING, BUT HOW ARE MY GUNNERS GOING TO GET ANY PRACTICE.--KIRTLAND. I 49