Catasauqua Ace Bags Another Jap Plane
Item
Title
Catasauqua Ace Bags Another Jap Plane
Date Created
1943-02-11
Subject
World War II See all items with this value
Bethlehem (Pa.) See all items with this value
Military Personnel See all items with this value
Lynch, Thomas J. See all items with this value
Temporal Coverage
World War, 1939-1945 See all items with this value
Spatial Coverage
Catasauqua (Pa.) See all items with this value
Creator
The Bethlehem globe-times. (Bethlehem, Pa.) 1925-1977
Identifier
ww2-7944
Description
Clipping extracted from The Bethlehem globe-times pertaining to WWII military personnel from the Lehigh Valley, part of the BAPL WWII Newspaper Clipping Collection.
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application/pdf
Clipping
Language
English
Publisher
Bethlehem Area Public Library
Contributor
Entries added in 2013 funded in part with Federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries.
Date Submitted
2013-04-01
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February 11, 1943
Catasauqua Ace Bags Another Jap Plane
Capt. Thomas J. Lynch, 26, Brings Down Eleventh in Pacific Area.
Captain Thomas J. Lynch, 26-year-old Catasauqua flying ace who was rated as one of the three ranking aces of the Southwest Pacific area in a release from General MacArthur’s headquarters in Australia last month, gets credit for another Japanese plane in a story made public by the War Department.
Tommy Lynch’s squadron, according to the advices of the War Department, took part in a three-day battle January 6-8 over New Guinea and New Britain in which the 16 members of the single American fighter squadron shot down 24 Jap planes.
Lynch, whose parents live at 426 Walnut Street, Catasauqua, has been in the thick of the fighting for several months in the Southwestern Pacific Theater of war.
Catasauqua Ace Bags Another Jap Plane
Capt. Thomas J. Lynch, 26, Brings Down Eleventh in Pacific Area.
Captain Thomas J. Lynch, 26-year-old Catasauqua flying ace who was rated as one of the three ranking aces of the Southwest Pacific area in a release from General MacArthur’s headquarters in Australia last month, gets credit for another Japanese plane in a story made public by the War Department.
Tommy Lynch’s squadron, according to the advices of the War Department, took part in a three-day battle January 6-8 over New Guinea and New Britain in which the 16 members of the single American fighter squadron shot down 24 Jap planes.
Lynch, whose parents live at 426 Walnut Street, Catasauqua, has been in the thick of the fighting for several months in the Southwestern Pacific Theater of war.