S/Sgt Harvey C Patterson Jr worked in the Sheet metal group of the Engineering division in the 392nd Bombardment Squadron (in the 30th Bombardment Group).

From the History of the 392 Bombardment Squadron, Nov 1944:

"Sgt. HARVEY PATTERSON, of the Sheetmetal Section of Engineering, describes his experience: "I was standing outside the Tech Supply tent with M/Sgt. BLANKENSHIP when we saw a low flying fighter plane skimming along the edge of ISLEY #1`. He was in a shallow dive about 100 feet up at the start, he coasted down going fast, and the ground A/W batteries were firing at him. The Jap rammed into a B-29 parked near A.T.C. The A/W position near our line area was credited with this plane.

We had run out to the field near the Engineering Section tent and for a few minutes it looked like everything was all over. I walked back to the tent, when suddenly I saw a plane coming in from the direction of ISLEY #1 and heading straight for our area. Every gun was firing at it. I jumped behind some sandbags, and I could hear a bullet hit the vertical stabilizer of A/P #613 which was parked nearby. The enemy plane crashed on ISLEY #2 and a Negro Marine, and one of our combat men started after the pilot who had bailed out".

The 392nd Bombardment Squadron began assembling at March Field, CA in the summer of 1942. The squadron moved to Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii Territory in Oct 1943. In Nov 1943 the squadron moved to Canton Island in the Phoenix Islands, and began combat operations against the Japanese.

Over the next year and a half the squadron kept moving to "one damn island after another". In Jan 1944 the 392nd Bomb Squadron moved to Apamama Island, followed by a move to Kwajalein Island in Mar 1944. Their final move was to Saipan in Aug 1944. They remained there until Feb 1945, at which time they returned to Hawaii. They were sent back to the US in the summer and fall of 1945.

https://30thbombgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/392.unit_.history.v02.pdf