Catasauqua Ace Bags Another Jap Plane
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Title
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Catasauqua Ace Bags Another Jap Plane
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Date Created
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1943-02-11
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Creator
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The Bethlehem globe-times. (Bethlehem, Pa.) 1925-1977
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Identifier
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ww2-7944
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Description
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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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Digital Format
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application/pdf
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Clipping
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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Bethlehem Area Public Library
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Contributor
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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.
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Date Submitted
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2013-04-01
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content
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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.
