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Show Oak City Pilot Bags Two Japanese Planes i Lt. (jg) Grant Harris, USNR, of 1 Oak City, carrier-based Navy fighter fight-er bomber pilot, shot down two Japanese planes, and scored a damaginn eanr miss with a bomb aimed at a destroyer during the O-kinawa O-kinawa campaign. Lt. Harris flew a Corsair fighter bomber from the ; deck of a large Essex class carrier car-rier attached to Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's famed Task Force 58 ... In the April 7th fleet action k between Kyushu and Okinawa, the Oak City pilot drove through a terrific ter-rific antiaircraft fire to aim his bomb at a Jap destroyer. A near miss damaged the destroyer . . .Lt. Harris shot down his first Jap, an , Oscar fighter, during a sweep of Kyushu Mar. 18. Again at Kyushu Ky-ushu on Iar. 30 he sent another . Jap ' bomber spinning into fh'i.'- jvhto the Pacific. His air group shot down 220 Jap planes in theOkinawa campaign and wrecked wreck-ed 72 more on the ground. Broadcast over KOVO. Pfc. Ward Robison USMC, arrived in Delta Tuesday on a furlough. He will visit his mother, Mrs. Sepha Robison, and the family here. Ward has been overseas two years, in action ac-tion in the Pacific area where he was wounded. He has been in the United States for a month for hospitalization hos-pitalization before he had this furlough fur-lough to come home. Lt. James L. Knight stopped in Delta Saturday night for a visit with his mother, Mrs. E. D. Knight. He was on a routine flight in a Hellcat, and left Sunday morning to return to Mojave. Sgt. Leo Lyman Finlinson of Oak City has sent word that he is in the United States and will be home any day now. His parents, wife and many friends will be glad to welcome him home. He is the .son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Finlinson. pi-S Fmi Anderson received word from their son Byron Anderson, that his group of the 8th Air Force had received the Presidential Citation ip two major batttles over the European Eu-ropean area some time ago. Dern Roper is spending his time fishing in Oak Creek canyon, and having extra good luck. |