The P-thirty-eight Lightning and Operation Vengeance, the four-hundred-mile intercept that killed Admiral Yamamoto
How sixteen P-38 Lightnings flew 400 miles at wave-top height to intercept and kill Admiral Yamamoto in 1943.
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The Vought F four U Corsair and the bent-wing bird that was too hot for the Navy's own carriers
The Vought F4U Corsair was rejected by the Navy for carrier use but became one of WWII's greatest fighters in Marine Corps hands.
TaildraggerRichard Bong, America's Ace of Aces and the forty victories that changed the Pacific War
Richard Bong scored 40 aerial victories in the Pacific, making him the highest-scoring American fighter ace in history.
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