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The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II By Judith M. Heimann. 304 pp. Harcourt, 2007. $26. During an attack on a formidable group of Imperial Navy warships at Brunei Bay, Borneo, on November 16, 1944, an antiaircraft shell devastated the B-24 …
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