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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 ...
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Midway Campaign - The Aircraft
U.S. F4F Wildcat Fighter. Originally designed as a biplane ... These characteristics caused TBDs to take very heavy losses from Japanese flak and interceptors. At Midway, all the attacking TBDs were ...
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Two Marine Wildcats vs. the Japanese Invasion - The Defense of Wake Island
On December 11, 1941, just days after Pearl Harbor, two Marine Corps F4F Wildcat pilots found themselves as the last line of ...
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How a ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber became a WWII ace at Coral Sea
Edward “Butch” O’Hare, the F4F-3 Wildcat pilot whose five aerial victories ... in time to join in the decisive U.S. victory at Midway on June 4, 1942. After sorting out the air-to-air ...