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Old 2 June 2000, 03:22 AM   #6
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Early in WWII Colin P. Kelly was posthumously awarded thr CMH for allegedly sinking the Japanese battleship Haruna with a kamikaze like attack with his B-17. That never happened. Sakai saw Kelly die and said he should have gotten the medal for what he did do and that was to stay with his burning plane until all members of his crew were able to bail out. Kelly did not survive.
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