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Lt. Ralph K

Lt. Ralph K. Hover, Salem, Mo., gets last minute instructions from his intelligence officer, Lt. Charles Ashcraft, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for the 21 June 44 long range fighter escort mission with bombers of the 8th Air Force which attacked targets in central Germany and then flew on to land in Russia. Lt. Hofer, former Golden Gloves boxing champion, was recently forced down in France. He landed on the Normandy beachhead and then flew back to England, bringing with him a German helmet and a copy of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" as souveniers. Lt. Hover has a total of 29½ enemy aircraft destroyed, 16½ in the air and 13 on the ground.

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