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 […] ...
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Ranked: 5 Best Bombers of World War II
What You Need to Know: During WWII, five bombers stood out ... "Betty," a versatile medium and torpedo bomber with notable ...
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 ...
Some became water bombers to fight forest fires ... boats were the world's largest operational seaplanes and the Navy's largest WWII-era aircraft. It measured nearly 120 feet in length and ...
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 ...