Lieutenant Robert "Rocky" Byrnes, twenty-six, Saint Louis, Missouri, flying with the 64th Squadron of the 57th Fighter Group, returning after destroying three German Messerschmitt-109s in aerial victory over the Sicilian straits on April 18, in which the 57th United States Fighter Group of the 9th Air Force destroyed seventy-four enemy planes. Sourced from the Library of Congress.
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