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SQUADRON NAMED BY JAPS OVER RADIO

The following article appeared in “CBI Roundup,” the official newspaper of the CBI Theater.

Ever since it started winning a reputation for itself by knocking down Japanese planes over Burma, one of the crack P-51 Mustang fighter-bomber squadrons of

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