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By Lee Van Atta. International News Service Staff Correspondent with the U.S. Fifth Air Force, Somewhere in Dutch New Guinea, September 1. The first Americans to raid the enemy-held Philippines by daylight since Corregidor fell before the Jap onslaught two years ago last May bombed the Davao area at noon today.
Ace Gerald Johnson (left) stands with reporter Lee van Atta (center) and bomber leader Dick Ellis.
Lt. Colonel John P. Henebry (C.O. 3rd BG) and Lee Van Atta (International News Service correspondent) with A-20G "Barry's Baby I.N.S." 42-86768 at Nadzab Airfield.
Standing left to right: Major Kenneth E. Rosebush, 1st Lt. Harold R. Prince, Lt. Colonel John P. Henebry (C.O. 3rd BG) and Lee Van Atta (International News Service correspondent).
Paris has become well-acquainted with General Kenney during the war and also visited General MacArthur while in the Pacific theater. Another honored guest of the occasion was Lee Van Atta, the first American war correspondent to reach Australia after the outbreak of hostilities.
A Reporter's Account of the First Daylight Raid on the Philippines INS correspondent, Lee Van Atta, rides along with the 43rd on 1 Sep. 1944: A letter to home dated 12 September 1944 from 2nd Lt. James E. O'Brien, 63rd SQ, sent by his brother, Alfred O'Brien
During April 1944, photographed parked at Nadzab Airfield with Major Kenneth E. Rosebush, 1st Lt. Harold R. Prince, Lt. Col. John P. "Jock" Henebry and Lee Van Atta (INS correspondent). On April 5, 1944 took off from Nadzab Airfield piloted by Prokopovitz on a bombing mission against Hollandia.
