Combat Tactics in the SouthWest Pacific Area
...are not self-sealing and no armor plate is installed. FRANCES: In the Naval twin engin class this multi-purpose bomber is attaining increased uses. This plane known by the Allied code...
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Nick Ilnicki in New Guinea. Letters from a Fighter Pilot. Nov. 1943 – Nov 1944, Vol. 1
...coast capturing major posts and airfields and isolating other pockets that were of no strategic value. The battlefield was 1,200 miles of New Guinea coastline with major Japanese installations from...
Aces of the 475th
We dedicate this page of our website to the “Aces” of the 475th Fighter group. These are the special men who achieved the status of fighter ace by personally destroying...
Other Aces and Their Stories
...is My Copilot”, became an instant best-seller and was made into a motion picture. He returned briefly to China in 1945, delivering high velocity and aerial rockets to Chennault. After...
Longest “Single Engine” flight Over Water
...life and started to climb. The Celebes Islands were occupied by the enemy and had many installations with anti-aircraft guns. Joe elected to circum-navigate these rather than risk being shot...
Hades Squadron
...And my friends to fade away And I found out that I had been But an instant along the way. And then I broke completely clear. In the brilliance of...
Arthur L. Peregoy Newspaper Clippings
...flights. Their strafing and bombing attacks on Japanese bases were “made from dangerously low altitudes, destroying and damaging enemy installations and equipment.” (Picture Caption as appeared in paper: MEDAL FOR...
First Hand Accounts
...destroying and damaging enemy installations and equipment." (Picture Caption as appeared in paper: MEDAL FOR BALTIMOREAN - Honored for "extraordinary achievement" while taking part in... Read more Black Sunday by...
Unit History
...and they were capable of launching large scale attacks against our ground forces and installations at any time. One such large-scale attack, involving more than a hundred enemy aircraft, had...
431st Hades Fighter Squadron
...period of time, then increased and so on until the engines were broken in. Then each new engine was installed in a P-38 every 400 hours of flight time (~6...