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Skip Bombing, Hardback Book

Skip Bombing Hardback

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Murphy was one of a very small number of volunteer pilots who, with their flight crews, started bombing at low altitudes in B-17 flying fortresses in the Southwest Pacific.

The aircraft were flown at a 200-foot altitude and at 250 miles per hour at night.

One-thousand pound bombs, equipped with four-to-five second fuses, were dropped from the B-17s.

On March 3, 1943, the Japanese made a desperate move to re-supply their forces on New Guinea.

Twenty-two cargo, transport, and war ships proceeded toward New Guinea using bad weather for cover.

They were found in the Bismarck Sea. The Allied Air Forces--using skip bombing--sank all twenty-two Japanese ships.

Murphy was credited with sinking nine Japanese ships during his year of combat, including one in the Bismarck Sea battle.

Skip bombing became a tactic that helped the U.S. win the war in the South Pacific.

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