Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...
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Ranked: 5 Best Bombers of World War II
What You Need to Know: During WWII, five bombers stood ... G4M "Betty," a versatile medium and torpedo bomber with notable ...
AOM 3/C Claude L. Piper, who died on March 2, 1945, has a cenotaph marker at Saint Patrick’s Cemetery in Benton.
Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting ... 22 TBD-1 Devastator torpedo bombers and 18 F4F-3s to eliminate it. The Japanese light carrier’s hangar sheltered eight ...
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 ...