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ABOVE: Pete Masters (left) and John Piper are primarily responsible for four of 75 Squadron’s six
aerial kills; Masters a ‘Zero’ and Piper three G4M1 ‘Betty’ bombers.


RIGHT: Les Jackson scored the squadron’s first ‘Zero’ kill on 5 April 1942. PO2c Yoshi’e Takuro bailed
out into foothills about thirty kilometres northeast of Port Moresby, but was never found.

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