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Re: Guadalcanal, P-400 lost on 30/08/1942
The missing Marines is the only place when it is said that Amerine was shot down, and you can find original reports on fold3 where he (Amerine) says after his return that he was lost, and said nothing about Zeroes, so I don't know how these were added to the picture. Maybe from a first report (remember that it was a scramble against a reported Japanese raid).
As for the date for VMF-224, most sources agree that it was on the 31st and the ones that don't are ones that use US dates for events on the other side of the date change (it was the 31st in Guadalcanal and the 30th in Pearl Harbor and the US). By the way VMF-224 landed in Guadalcanal on the 30th after the battle during which 67th FS was decimated, and the losses occured the next day on their first scramble.
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