From San Francisco to Pearl Harbor
Swamp Ghost had been dispatched from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor just a day before the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. But as fate would have it, the plane did not fly with the Kangaroo Squadron that day. Instead, it served in some of the earliest American bombing raids of World War II. Then disaster struck.
Von San Francisco nach Pearl Harbor
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He should bomb the port
In the winter of 1942, the Japanese invaded and threatened a community on the island of New Britin in Papua New Guinea. The plane that has since gone down in history was used. A month later, on February 23, Swamp Ghost was dispatched to bombard Japanese ships in Rabaul harbor. However, things didn’t go according to plan.
He should bomb the port
