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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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How a ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber became a WWII ace at Coral Sea
Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting ... seemed just as much devoted to fighters as to dive bombers. John Arthur Leppla was born in Lima, Ohio, on May 7, 1916.
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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 defense of the carrier Lexington on Feb. 20, 1942, made him both the Navy’s first World War II fighter ace and ...
Why Was The UK's Fairey Battle Called A "Flying Coffin"?
The Fairey Battle, a British-built single-engine light bomber aircraft, was conceived by the Fairey Aircraft Company and ...
Military removes webpages about Indigenous code talkers to comply with Trump DEI order
In order to comply with Donald Trump ’s executive orders to eradicate signs of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), the ...
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One of the Creepiest Sinkings of WW2
On November 20, 1941, the HMAS Sydney, a powerful Australian light cruiser ... champion running back to replace Najee Harris When Dive Bombers Sank Aircraft Carriers at Midway ...
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The decoy sites designed to fool Hitler's bombers
It was a plan designed to fool Hitler's bombers - four pieces of land in north Staffordshire transformed to look like fake airfields, factories or burning towns. The aim? To trick the WW2 ...
Few papers covered the Wright brothers' first flight. Here's what was reported
When the Wright brothers finally succeeded in getting their flyer airborne, many didn’t believe they had really done it.