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John D. Lukacs
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📖 Writer | Escape from Davao | Haven’t They Suffered Enough? w/Beano Cook | Tennessee Volunteer: The Annotated WWII Diary of General Austin Shofner, Summer ‘22
Dec 23, 2021 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Today's marks the 78th death anniversary of the greatest American hero of the Pacific Theater of #WWII, Lt. Col. William Edwin Dyess of Albany, Texas. The "One-Man Scourge of the Japanese" waged an extraordinary one-man war versus Japan from Dec. 1941 to Dec. 1943 (thread)... 2) The pilot, 25, downed 5 enemy planes btw Dec '41/Jan '42 in the Philippines. When the USAAF ran out of planes, Dyess fought as infantry. On 8 Feb '42, Dyess volunteered & led 20 men of the 21st Pursuit Sqdrn in America's 1st amphibious landing of #WW2 @ Agloloma Bay, Bataan...