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LONESOME LADY

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CO 44-40680 7 494 866 ~ ~ 00-4

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Lost 28 Jul 45, JPN - MACR 14758 - Pilot Thomas C. Cartwright
Featured in "A Date With the Lonesome Lady"

Contributor - Al Blue

Info Contributor - Daniel L. Stockton
When LONESOME LADY was shot down during a bombing run in the Inland Sea of Japan, Pilot/Author T. C. Cartwright and his crew became POWs. The men were interned at Hiroshima, and while the pilot/author was sent to Tokyo for interrogation, his entire crew was killed by the U. S. atomic bomb.

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