Air Force Times on MSN6d
How a ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber became a WWII ace at Coral SeaNavy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...
National Interest on MSN4mon
Ranked: 5 Best Bombers of World War IIWhat 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 ...
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