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Marine Corsair pilot 1st Lt. Wilbur J. Tomas of El Dorado, Kansas, who knocks down Jap planes in bunches flying his Corsair, became an ace recently when he added up a score of seven enemy planes shot to smithereens. On June 30, Lt. Thomas bagged four Zeros and on July 6, he tallied three more. His most recent kill came over Kolombangara Island as he and a wing man battled seven Jap twin engine bombers and a group of escorting Zeros.
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