Flying aces Duffey and Powers 1943
Lieutenant MacArthur Powers, twenty-seven, of Inwood, New York, (left) and Lieutenant Richard E. Duffey, twenty-four, of Walled Lake, Michigan, at the 57th Fighter Group base somewhere in Tunisia after both men had become aces in a single engagement by destroying five enemy planes. Powers, who had been with the Royal Air Force at El Alamein, now has seven enemy planes to his credit. He had two with the Royal Air Force.
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- 1943-04
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