Air Force Times on MSN5d
How a ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber became a WWII ace at Coral Sea
Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...
Archaeology2d
Airman's Remains Recovered From WWII Bomber
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that archaeologists were among an international and […] ...
Remains of WWII bomber pilot, lost in the Pacific in ’44, are identified
The remains of the pilot of a downed World War II Army bomber that was the subject of a pioneering recovery ... In early 2023 ...
FLYING Magazine5d
U.S. Air Force, Navy Restore Historic WWII-Era Airfield in the Pacific
US Air Force and Navy restore historic WWII-era airfield on Tinian in the Pacific. The airfield was a key launching point for ...
USAF restores WWII airbase that launched nuclear bombs on Japan to counter China
The US Air Force restores North Field Airbase, the WWII launch site for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings, to ...
Navy Times6d
How a ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber became a WWII ace at Coral Sea
Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting down ... seemed just as much devoted to fighters as to dive bombers. John Arthur Leppla was born in Lima, Ohio, on May 7 ...
The Washington Post15d
Remains of WWII bomber pilot, lost in the Pacific in ’44, are identified
The remains of the pilot of a downed World War II Army bomber that was the subject of ... In early 2023, the DPAA and the Navy conducted a five-week deepwater search of the site using a special ...