High in the sky over the coast of Australia, the 131½-ton Catalina flying boat suddenly twisted and dived. Zeros protecting a Jap cruiser were blazing away. The Catalina shook them off and straightened out.
Corporal Keene, flight engineer, picked up the interphone to speak to the pilot. When he got no reply, Keene climbed down from his high-hung, isolated engine compartment to see what the trouble was. First he saw the remains of the chief gunner. The others in the eight-man Australian crew slumped at their posts. Every one had been killed, struck by machine-gun bullets or cannon fire. Corporal Keene was...
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