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How a ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber became a WWII ace at Coral Sea
Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...
Archaeology3d
Airman's Remains Recovered From WWII Bomber
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that archaeologists were among an international and […] ...
Remains of WWII bomber pilot, lost in the Pacific in ’44, are identified
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 ...
FLYING Magazine6d
U.S. Air Force, Navy Restore Historic WWII-Era Airfield in the Pacific
US Air Force and Navy restore historic WWII-era airfield on Tinian in the Pacific. The airfield was a key launching point for ...
National Interest on MSN4mon
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 ...
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Iwo Jima veteran recalls ‘terrible, terrible’ battle 80 years after WWII
His 10 days at Iwo Jima were a “terrible, terrible experience with dead people everywhere,” he told Stars and Stripes in a ...
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The Philippine Mars took its final flight. See photos of the flying-boat aircraft from WWII to its last 800-mile journey.
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 ...
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How a ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber became a WWII ace at Coral Sea
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 ...