By United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 11th.; United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 67th
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52Z and perhaps 2 more. First Marine Air Wing at Guadalcanal heard "Typhoon McGoon's" report and the dive and torpedo planes were readied. The convoy, carrying a force which General Vandegrift put at 30,000 to 35,000 troops, had been sighted and hit during the morning by SBD's from the Enterprise. At ioi8, i6 B-17's were ordered to attack from Espiritu. While the Forts were making their way northward, Marine and Navy planes from Henderson carried out two damaging strikes on the Japanese armada.
The third drifted 7 days at sea, lost two of its members to exposure, was finally rescued by the Navy. By 20 September, the iith Group had sighted 155 vessels of all types during 7 weeks of operation. It had bombed i9 and hit 4- Of these, 2 were sunk. The scale of attack was always light; i attack by 4 plarqes; 4 by 3; 4 by 2; and io by single search planes. To increase the striking power of the B-17's, another squadron was dispatched from Hawaii in mid-September. Necessary maintenance personnel moved out of Oahu on the 21st in LB-3o's-early versions of the Liberator.
The navigator, explaining that no excitement was imminently likely, took off his shirt to acquire a tan. Not until the plane turned on a Bougainville bearing was the first enemy aircraft seen. Two Zeros made a tentative pass. Later an enemy cargo ship went into violent maneuvers as the Fort approached. 50-caliber sent her down for a dead-stick landing. Meanwhile, the navigator counted and identified the ships below and the bombardier decided that the flak which thwacked against the fuselage was from naval guns.
