Us Official Photographs
Out of the cumulus clouds popped an armed Jap transport plane
1943-08-21
mining installations for Pomelia in the Celebes. Out of the cumulus clouds popped an armed Jap transport plane resembling a Douglas DC-3 with the roundel of the Japanese officials to Makassar. Capt. Augustus V. Connery, (East Providence, R.I.) was flying the wing position and his top turret gunner S/Sgt. John W. Tackett Los Angeles, Calif.) sent a stream of.50 calibre from engines along the windows and into the tail. When the skin of the tail burned off the transport nosed down and crashed into the sea, disappearing completely. The episode from start to finish consumed a matter of a few seconds.
