AT POINT OF DEATH
American Bombs Enemy.
(Received September 1, 7 p.m.)
SYDNEY, September 1. Mortally wounded by shrapnel from an anti-aircraft shell which struck a Flving Fortress during the bombing of enemy ships in Milne Bay, a young bomb-aimer, who was on his first operational flight released his stick of bombs before he fell forward over his bomb-sight, and died. The same she wounded the navigator, but though suffering intense pain from the wounds he was able to guide the aircraft on the flight back to its base. The flight to which the machine belonged, lost one aircraft, which received a direct hit by a shell, another machine was riddled with holes, but managed to land with a flat tyre ant useless brakes and wingflaps. The young bomb-aimer who did his iob at the point of death was Sergeant Earl W. Sydnor, Pennsylvania. The anti-aircraft fire from the enemy shlps was described as ‘ terrific.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 287, 2 September 1942, Page 5
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155AT POINT OF DEATH Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 287, 2 September 1942, Page 5
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