Photograph of Sketch by Coast Guardsman Max L. Dorothy. HOW COAST GUARD-MANNED LST BAGGED 4 JAP PLANES OVER LEYTE GULF PORTRAYED BY COMBAT ARTIST. Spouting anti-aircraft fire into the skies over Leyte Gulf, gunners of a Coast Guard-manned LST shot down four Japanese warplanes in a 70-minute battle off Dulag on October 28, 1944. Coast Guard Combat Artist Max L. Dorothy, an eye-witness, portrayed the action in this dramatic black and white drawing. It shows a Jap Tojo and a Val, trailing black smoke and plunging into the gulf, while another Val lets go with a bomb that narrowly missed the LST. C
Photograph of Sketch by Coast Guardsman Max L. Dorothy. HOW COAST GUARD-MANNED LST BAGGED 4 JAP PLANES OVER LEYTE GULF PORTRAYED BY COMBAT ARTIST. Spouting anti-aircraft fire into the skies over Leyte Gulf, gunners of a Coast Guard-manned LST shot down four Japanese warplanes in a 70-minute battle off Dulag on October 28, 1944. Coast Guard Combat Artist Max L. Dorothy, an eye-witness, portrayed the action in this dramatic black and white drawing. It shows a Jap Tojo and a Val, trailing black smoke and plunging into the gulf, while another Val lets go with a bomb that narrowly missed the LST. Coast Guardsman Dorothy's home is in Los Angeles, Calif.
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Keywords: 17-a2-155, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg
