Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that archaeologists were among an international and […] ...
First Lt. Herbert G. Tennyson was one of 11 men on the B-24 shot down off New Guinea. The remains of the pilot of a downed ...
US Air Force and Navy restore historic WWII-era airfield on Tinian in the Pacific. The airfield was a key launching point for ...
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 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 ...