Butch O'Hare, the Grumman Wildcat, and the Six Minutes Over the Lexington That Saved a Carrier and Named an Airport
How Butch O'Hare downed five bombers in six minutes to save the USS Lexington - and why Chicago's airport bears his name.
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The SBD Dauntless and the five minutes that turned the Pacific War at Midway
On June 4, 1942, a fuel-starved squadron of SBD Dauntless dive bombers sank three Japanese fleet carriers in roughly five minutes, permanently shifting the balance of power in the Pacific War.
TaildraggerThe Great Marianas Turkey Shoot and the June nineteenth, nineteen forty-four day the Hellcats broke Japanese naval air power
On June 19, 1944, U.S. Hellcats destroyed roughly 350 Japanese aircraft over the Philippine Sea, ending Japanese naval air power for good.
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