Ace in a day' is a rare distinction. Among the earliest American pilots to do so, Jim Swett was credited with seven victories amid a WWII turning point.

Among the earliest American multi-aces, Jim Swett was credited with seven aerial victories amid a turning point in World War II — and would ... Equipped with Grumman F4F-4 Wildcats, VMF-221 ...

Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...

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 ...

COLLIN COUNTY, Texas — Gary Greenwood first saw the WWII photos when he was a teenager. They were disturbing enough then. But now, as he clings to the memory of his late father who took those ...

and Inclusion (DEI)” are photos of the Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II. Thinking individuals will be unsurprised ...