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Show Lt. Kent Dover On I Longest Bomber Raid B Lt. Kent Dover, son ot Mr. and B Mrs. Horace Dover, recently par-Si par-Si I t llMtPrt In nn nttnrlr hv T I ut ii ira i ill the longest range flight aPtast new Jap tarets In which the ; l.m"s struck at the vital aviation g.is production center at Balikpnpnn in ' la.' tern IJorneo. Kent was a part of the team of "Long Rangers" from the 13h AAP which made the first daylight day-light strike against that target and in the longest flight ever made by Liberators in formation. HitttiiK savagely at the Pandan-sari Pandan-sari Refinery, containing the greater great-er portion of the Japanese aviation fuel production facilities in that ! area and at the paraffin refining base nearby, the planes knocked out the Important power plant, a fractionating tower, started a huge !fire wih smoke rising to 6000 feet in addition to smaller fires and planted direct hits on a 1000-ton cargo ship at a nearby pier, j Some 35 Jap Zeros rrtade passes nt the Liberators but slipped right I through the formation. Anti-air- cr;ift fire was the worst many of thp veteran crews had seen since th. early days of Munda in the Central Solomons whence the "Long 9 Rangers" made their first history in Pacific warfare. |