By Shizuo Fukui
Рукописная(!) работа бывшего японского судостроителя, капитан-лейтенанта Shizuo Fukui, в которой он изобразил все оставшиеся на плаву после капитуляции японские корабли, с указанием их характеристик, кратким описанием и рисунками внешнего вида. Участвуя в работе комиссии по демобилизации и демилитаризации он имел возможность в точности изучить все описываемые корабли и суда. Английский текст легко читаем, с каллиграфией у автора - отлично.
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At right, closest to the camera is Lt. Robert Eckfeldt's "Bald Eagle," National Archives , 76 precedented number - were made before ammunition was exhausted and Webb ordered the flight to break off and head for the bomber stream. "On pulling off the field, I looked back and in moderate terms estimated IS airplanes burning on the ground," Webb reported after returning to Bottisham 42 In all, 16 enemy aircraft were claimed destroyed and another eight damaged making this the Group's most succe sful strafing attack during 1944.
A massive operation typical of so many which the "Mighty Eighth" regularly staged, the strategic bombing effort for June 29 involved some thirteen targets, most of them aircraft plants in the vicinity of Leipzig, and employed nearly fourteen hundred fighters and bombers. With so many aircraft headed toward east-central Germany that day, the bomber tream at one point occupied ome 200 miles of German airspace from end to end. 41 Though the formations offered tempting opportunities for German interception, the Luftwaffe made only scattered appearances throughout the day.
On June 20, the "Yellowjackets" put up two missions - the first escorting B24s to western Poland, during which Group Commander Col. Chri tian was able to direct a successful strafing attack on Putnitz Airdrome. After observing several columns of moke when the Gestapo prison at Frenes was evacuated in mid August. "We were told by the inmate at the camp that the only way out of the place was up the chimney," Hastin wrote years later. After two months of the brutal conditions at Buchenwald he was finally turned over to the Luftwaffe and sent to Stalag rising from the field following the strafing run of two other flights, Ouistian led hi wingmen down for a pa at a German seaplane observed in a lake just north of the airdrome.