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Show Japanese Flier Dives Into His Own Bomb ADVANCED SOLOMON ISLAND BASE. A Japanese Zero pilot who dropped an aerial phosphorus bomb at a Liberator formation near Truk overran the bomb and was blown to bits when it exploded. Lieut. Col. Joseph C. Reddock, La-verne, La-verne, Okla., who today led 13th AAF bombers to strike Dublon island, is-land, told the story. "This Zero," Reddock said, "was in a vertical dive at us when he dropped his bomb. You know Zeros dive faster than bombs fall. He ran into his own bomb about a hundred hun-dred yards above us. Pieces of his wreckage fell through our formation." forma-tion." A veteran of 42 combat missions, Reddock said, the Truk raids were the toughest yet for Solomons-based Solomons-based bombers. |