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It was the night of December 2, 1943, and it was growing dark in Bari.
It was getting on toward 7 o'clock and the German Me-210 plane had been and gone on its eighth straight visit.
Capt. A. B. Jenks of the Office of Harbor Defense was very worried.
He knew that German long-range bombers had been returning to the attack in Italy.
On November 24th, they had made a raid on La Maddalena.
Two days later, some 30 of them had struck at a convoy off Bougie, sinking a troopship -- and it had been that very night that the Me-210 had made its first appearance.
After it had reappeared the next two nights, Jenks went to higher headquarters and said:
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