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Editor’s Note: A Good Thunder farm boy and pilot Ensign Jack Carl Fuller died 80 years ago Monday in one of the key battles ...
United Airlines flew two World War Two veterans to Manila as the Philippines marks its 80th year of liberation from the ...
Navy PB4Y-1 pilot Bruce Van Voorhis was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the South Pacific. Here, a ...
The Corsair performed well during World War II, claiming 2,140 air combat ... an incredible 11:1 kill ratio against Japanese planes. In 1938, the U.S. Navy issued a request for proposal (RFP ...
Pearce and four other crewmen — two pilots ... hunting” after the Japanese surrender in World War II. (Contributed photo) Three days after leaving the Navy in 1946, Robert Pearce got a ...
He received ace status by shooting down seven Japanese ... Navy commissioned Goodyear to build 4,000 during the war, according to the museum. Curators pointed to another American World War II ...
Navy PB4Y-1 pilot Bruce Van Voorhis was posthumously ... which bombed Axis industrial targets en masse over Europe during World War II, the Navy’s “Privateer” flew patrols over the Pacific ...
The U.S. Navy obliterated Japan’s best fighter pilots in a single day, marking one of the most decisive air battles in WWII. But how did it happen? Watch as we break down the incredible story of ...
Ensign Jack Carl Fuller received the Navy Cross, Air Medal, Purple Heart, American Area Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Area Campaign Medal, two Bronze Stars and World War II Victory Medal.
He and many others were seasick and faced the threat of Japanese torpedoes ... for popular music. The Navy supplied Art and me with a twin-engine PBY amphibian. The pilot would take off from ...