World Battlefronts: From the Hip

Second Lieut. John B. Mulvana, bombardier of the Flying Fortress "Old Bill," dropped his bombs over Bremen, then started testing his machine guns. He fired a 20-round burst, watching the feeder mechanisms. A voice shouted over the interphone: "You got him! Why don't you call out those attacks!" Mulvana looked up just in time to see a Messerschmitt 109, which had popped out of a cloud and into the line of fire, falling away and coming apart.

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