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pened that most ef the Surviv--
ing members OF my squadron
reached that number at the
same time.
II was one of those who
stayed on because there were
no requirements and we were
needed to act as air artillery
In preparing the attack on the
Italian mainland. At Salerno
our B-25s actually became the
artillery of the air, flying low
over the infantry and laying
down barrage of bombs as
the ground forces advanced.
Those are the boys who suf-
fer and really deserve the glory
those boys in jeeps, tanks,
trucks and on foot. Our set
back there was due entirely TO
lack of supplies"
NEED MORE PLANES
"Give Gen. Eisenhower more
planes. and more requirements
and we can knock out Germany
i'm less time than most people
think" he said. THE Iuftwaffe
still has a lot of good fighter
planes left hut the quality of the
pilots has rapidly deteriOrated.
From papers taken during
An 4 I nF "a
learned that regardless of the
number OF combat missions In
which he may have taken part
no German flier Is entitled 10 a
leave unless he has become an
outstanding hero. The ordinary
luftwaffe pilot knows that he
has nothing except death TO look
forward 10, so his fighting spirit
has declined. inexperienced
pilots take the place of the
veterans who die"
TELLS OF RANDAZZO RAID
The young aviation officer de-
scribed the bombing Of Randazzo
most strongly defended OF all NazI
strongboldS in Sicily, as the worst
thing IRIS, group ever experienced
"RandazZo was 80 close TO Mt.
Etna that German observers
posted on its slopes and peaks
were able to radio our exact
altitude TO the anti-aircraft gun
crew i'm the valley where our OBJ
iective lay" he recounted.
"The flax was terrible. II
took just 10 second by actual
count from the time that the
ack-ackS flashed until shells
burst around us at our level.
We found il difficult to locate
our targets and had TO make
several runs.
con the second runs the Ger
mans fired with something that
burst with a puff of red smoke
something we had never be-
fore seen. flax bursts being
black. Every ship in the squad
ron was holed repeatedly"
COMRADES WOUNDED
II was above RandaZzo that two
of 1t. Resnick'S crew mates were
He suffered cuts from
flying glass.
Nothing hurts the morale Of
the AAF more than TO have
some guy return to the United
states and he written up by the
newspapers as hero he said.
clippings of the story soon
reach his comrades on the fight
ing front and II often turns out
that the tributes paid to him
are unmerited.
He himself had only been n
crew member and a lucky one, he
said, giving all the credit for the
successful completion Of his mis-
Sions to the pilot
ut II the pilot who puts YOU
on the target" he said. ITS
the pilot who ducks the flax and
lodges the enemy's fighters. A
crew is only rs good a. its skip
per. always had a good one.
With the kind of pilots I have
had I could 20 back 10 do 50
more combat missions"
1t Resnlck's mother was lust
about TO send hun a cableCram
when he wired her that he had
In the United States and
was flying 10 Detroit The cable
gram would have contained con-
CALCULATIONS for his twenty-fourth
birthday which occurs OCt 4
The heuienant'S leave VIII last
long enough for HIM 20 celebrate
the anniversary a. home. There
viii be party said his mother
a party with plenty OF milk.