World: 20 for I

Pilots Kenneth Jernstedt and William Reed popped out of a cloud into the hot blue sky over Burma. Below them, on the Jap-held airdrome at Moulmein, 25 or more enemy planes were lined up in tempting rows. The two "Flying Tigers" clawed the field with incendiary bullets, and Jernstedt dropped small fire bombs which he had packed into his flare release. The field was a junk heap of burning, exploding Jap planes when Jernstedt and Reed gunned their P-405 away, over the Salween River.

Two days later the Japs retaliated with a big bomber...

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