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    New and improved P-61 website

    Thanks to all who have visited us at Night Fighter, for a first-hand account of a P-61 "Black Widow" radar observer stationed in the CBI during 1945. We have recently improved the site, with links that take you straight to the action -- two air-to-air victories (within three days!) and many...
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    night fighter memoir now available!

    We welcome everyone to a new historical interest website -- www.nightfighter.info. This site contains a lengthy memoir of WWII from the perspective of a successful radar observer in a high-scoring night-fighter team -- Lt. James R. Smith. Smith flew with pilot Carl Absmeier aboard the Jing-Bow...
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    Fighter memoir

    My father, Lt. James R. Smith, was radar observer aboard the P-61 Black Widow named Jing-Bow Joy-Ride. He and pilot Carl Absmeier were a high-scoring team for the 426th NFS in China, with two air-to-air victories and a number of successful intruder missions in 1945. They even assisted with a...
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