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- ateamwar
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- Will Seaton Arnett, 1st Lt. USAAF
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- Army
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- A4648061
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- 01 August 2005
The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Will Seaton Arnett, 1st Lt. USAAF and John S. Green.
Briefed at 9 o'clock this morning for a raid on Sardinia but it was postponed because of weather.
At 12:30 we were briefed again to bomb an airport near Tunis. We coordinated with the 97th. They had 40 planes and we had 36 in the air. That's a lot of B-17's if you ask me and all loaded with frag bombs.
They bombed one drome and we bombed another.
There was some flak but it was far away. There were a number of fighters up but a very few of them came in.
I was co-pilot to Capt. Bruce Edmonds today.
March 11, 1943
Worked like hell all day building a door and table in our tent.
But, today was the one I've been waiting for. All the second Lts. made 1st Lt. except two or three. The co-pilots wore gold for exactly 9 months and 19 days and brother that is a long time considering everything.
Our promotions were effective March 2.
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