MISSION REPORT: 14 October 1944

MISSION REPORT - RESCUES - 01

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14 OCTOBER 1944
First Lieutenant John R. Dickinson, pilot of "Daylight One One", departed Middleburg Island at 0523 to cover strikes on Twiflit on Paloe Bay, in the Western Celebes. While at the rendezvous, Daylight received a message that a P-47 was going down. He crash landed his damaged plane on a beach near Paloe Bay. Lieutenant Dickinson, under an umbrella of P-38's, landed in the Bay and picked up the survivor. Rescue was affected at 1230. The pilot was in good condition. He stated that the enemy fire had inflicted so much damage to his ship that it would no longer fly. His P-47 was strafed and set ablaze by escorting P-38's. Pilot was brought back to base and the rescue ship landed at 1825.

RESCUED P-47 PILOT: 40th Fighter Squadron - First Lieutenant Darrel J. Laird, AC, 0-685996

AIRCRAFT TYPE: OA-10A
USAAF SERNO: 44-33???
CALLSIGN: "Daylight 11"
CREW: (Pilot) 1st Lt. John R. Dickinson, (Co-Pilot) 2nd Lt. Larry E. Boorman

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The narrative of these rescues was compiled and published in April 1946 from logbooks of pilots, notes, letters, and other
information by secretary Marina G. de Guzman in Pampanga, Philippines.

* Aircraft produced at Canadian Vickers Ldt, Cartierville, Quebec, Canada
** Canadian Vickers contract number that was unique to each aircraft produced by at the Cartierville, Quebec plan
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