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Here are five top picks of the museum's 30 WWII-era American military aircraft collection. Type: Dive Bomber First flight: May 1940 Number Built: Almost 6,000 Remarks: Sank 6 Japanese carriers ...

The PV-1 bomber, which also bore four guns, flew successful missions throughout the war. North American B-25 Mitchell One of the best known airplanes of World War II, the B-25 bomber was also one ...

Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting ... seemed just as much devoted to fighters as to dive bombers. John Arthur Leppla was born in Lima, Ohio, on May 7, 1916.

Edward “Butch” O’Hare, the F4F-3 Wildcat pilot whose five aerial victories in defense of the carrier Lexington on Feb. 20, 1942, made him both the Navy’s first World War II fighter ace and ...