Show S S. L Flier Bags Eighth Zero In Raid AT AN ADVANCED BASE IN NEW EW G qUINEA Jan Jait 23 Delayed INS When INS When Kens Men and and andT T The e Jolly JoUY Rodgers Rodg- Rodg f fers ers two famous i s Southwest u t h west Pacific Pa- Pa heavy ry bombardment born born- S outfits ranged ganged up on W V c e eva w va a k koday today i 5 the he Japs aps reversed their heir tactics Thelast The S last ast time the they y 4 ran out t to se sea r but ut this t ti time i m o c othey t they hey ey attacked vi vi- vi J l I The targets for lor f the he A American mer 1 c an 5 Liberators were antiaircraft post post- L Lt T T Lat Ladd The B were assigned the difficult job of ot dropping their eggs from a high altitude into foot 30 wide ments I Yet the bombardiers aimed the bombs right into e the pickle barrel knocking out many guns and an ammunition dump which was wu seen seen to o explode S Prom From rom the moment the target was sighted the Liberators were set upon by swarms of every very type of Japanese of-Japanese fighters Hitting back the he heavyweight bombers knocked down 12 of a strong force number number- numbering ing ng some 50 Nips 5 Captain Leaford Bearskin of oC Pitcher Okla celebrated his last mission by sh shooting down two of the Jie enemy A full blooded Indian he is now has hu combat hours which means return to the United States Slates for tor him Bearskin was made madea a capt captain ln just before today's mis mis- sion slon S S The two downed by Bearskin raises to six the total number of ot enemy planes credited to his ship P 38 which were flyIng flyIng fly- fly Ing top coyer scattered the Jap Zeros Zerol like terriers at rats The interceptors sent seven en Nips to their ancestors The sky seemed flaming planes said Lieutenant Kenneth G. G Ladd of Salt Lake City Utah whose Zero tod today brought his hia score to eight 4 I 1 am sure the Nips were trying I Ito to ram rani us I 1 ju just t pushed everything every every- every I thing I had forward to avoid them One I got just blew up exploding all over the sky and covering my ship with burning oil After I finished at I went downstairs and rid strafed d Ma Ma- dang I had a lot of fun tun Lieutenant Ladd is a son of Mr and Mrs George B. B Ladd 1061 E East st Fifth South street He ha has served overseas since Ince February 1943 and enlisted in the army in n March 1942 1912 He is ilS a a. graduate of ot East high school and attended the u University o of Utah one year prior to his enlistment |