Jim Heitkotter
Jim Heitkotter joined the 449th during the summer of 1944. The first time he saw Japanese fighters was 8 September 1944. He was a part of a flight of four P-38s led by Lieutenant Stuart Rea. At 1510 hours that day, twenty Oscars from the 64thSentai attacked C-47s unloading Chinese troops at the frontier airfield of…