CAUGHT UP WITH OWN BOMB
(Received April 7, 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 6. How a Zero pilot through a miscalculation was blown to bits by his own bomb was revealed by Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Reddock, who led the army Liberators in their third attack on Dublon, Truk atoll, reports the Associated Press of America correspondent at a Solomons base. “The Zero in n vertical dive dropped a phosphorus bomb nt a bomber formation near Truk. The Zero's dive was faster Ilian the fall of the bomb and he ran into his own bomb about 100 yards above us.” said Colonel Reddock. “Pieces of his wreckage fell through the the formation.”
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 164, 8 April 1944, Page 5
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