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Brief Magazine [The Chamber Maid's Impossible Landing]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09620.224 Author/Creator: Brief Magazine Place Written: Mariana Islands Type: Magazine Date: 18 October 1944 Pagination: 1 p. ; 16.5 x 22.8 cm. Order a Copy

A magazine clipping of the wreck of the plane the Chamber Maid. The captions read, "The Chamber Maid was going into its bombing run over Iwo Jima when the Zeros hit. Eleven men flew 650 impossible miles back to their home base and cheated death with an incredible landing. Eleven men, four of them wounded -- walked away from their wreck. In foreground is a trailer, plowed under by plane when it crash landed."

Date found from published photo from the Censorship office.

Robert "Bob" Stone was a Bombardier in World War II and served in the Pacific Front. These letters, were compiled by Bob's wife, Sheila M. Stone, and Ali Adair into a book named Letters in a Box. This book details Bob's service to his country, and his life after the war. Bob's letters were donated to the collection by his wife, Sheila M. Stone, in 2017. It contains a variety of letters, postcards, patches, pins, photographs, and scrapbooks that relate to Bob's training and combat missions.

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