U. S. AIRSHIPS

TRIMMING JAPS
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Morrow Of Hackensack Credits Our Planes

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.....William H. Morrow, home for a 23-day furlough with his parents at
82 Temple Avenue, Hackensack, after eight major engagements in the Pacific with an aircraft carrier and one of it's Douglas dive bombers, says it's a one-sided affair when an air force of ours meets a Japanese aircraft.

....."During the Rabaul engagement," the second-class aviation radioman says, "we lost only three planes and in each case the pilot was picked up by other members of our task force. And at Rabaul our ship was attacked by
120 Japs Zeros and dive-bombers and we destroyed at least 60 of them."

......Morrow has been on a 27,000-ton carrier of the Essex class. He has 11 sorties to his credit as an aerial gunner, and in one of the eight major engagements in which he has participated a presidential citation was awarded.

.....Other engagements in which Morrow has taken part include an attack on Truk, in which his plane scored a direct hit on a Jap heavy cruiser; the invasion of the Marcus Islands and the Marshalls; at Saipan the, the raids on
Wake and Tarawa.