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Pictured is 1st Lt. Harold E Segal of New York City, a Corsair pilot. Two cracked front teeth, a fractured nose and a cut lip are his souvenirs in a one-sided battle the Marine Corsair pilot had with more than 40 Jap Zeros and bombers on July 11, over New Georgia Island. Although Lt. Segal lost his plane, he shot down three Zeros in flames. Those three planes brought his total to five and the rank of Ace. Since July 11, however the New Yorker has run his string of Jap planes to seven, saved a fellow pilot's life and escaped death with a perpendicular dive into a cloud bank. Lt. Segal says his biggest thrill came on July 11 when he floated for 24 hours in a rubber lifeboat distressed beyond measure because he had killed -- a bird. Zero's guns had shot out his planes oil line and he was forced to land at sea.
OFFICIAL U. S. MARINE CORPS PHOTOGRAPH
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