Murphy was one of a very small number of volunteer pilots who,
with their flight crews, started bombing at low altitudes in B-17
flying fortresses in the Southwest Pacific. The aircraft were flown
at a 200-foot altitude and at 250 miles per hour at night.
One-thousand pound bombs, equipped with four-to-five second fuses,
were dropped from the B-17s. On March 3, 1943, the Japanese made a
desperate move to re-supply their forces on New Guinea. Twenty-two
cargo, transport, and war ships proceeded toward New Guinea using
bad weather for cover. They were found in the Bismarck Sea. The
Allied Air Forces--using skip bombing--sank all twenty-two Japanese
ships. Murphy was credited with sinking nine Japanese ships during
his year of combat, including one in the Bismarck Sea battle. Skip
bombing became a tactic that helped the U.S. win the war in the
South Pacific.
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