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D11500-54
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- 1941-06-19 (Creation)
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At mid-afternoon on Sunday June 15, 1941 three Army B-25 Mitchell medium bombers swooped in over the flotilla of boats off Point Defiance Park and began "strafing" the crowd of Tacomans who packed the beach. So began the dramatic war games enacted at the 4th Annual Young Men's Business Club Water Carnival. In a spectacular demonstration of the army's war preparedness, eight of the army's newest landing boats carried 312 fully equipped troops up to the shore. Armed with machine guns and mounted bayonets, the soldiers stormed onto the beach under the cover of a curtain of smoke laid down by an army attack plane. (T. Times 6/16/1941 p.1)
Organizations--Tacoma; Young Men's Business Club (Tacoma); Military air shows--Tacoma; Bombers--Tacoma; Festivals--Tacoma--1930-1940; Point Defiance Park (Tacoma); Boats--Tacoma;