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Douglas SBD Dauntless: Slow, But Deadly – The Silent Assassin of WWII
The Douglas SBD Dauntless may have been slow, but it was a force to be reckoned with. Known for its devastating accuracy and ...
‘They don’t make them like Billy anymore’: Veteran who served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam remembered
Billy Hall enlisted in the Marine Corps at the age of 15 in 1941, four months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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A-1 Skyraider: The Air Force’s Last Propellor Plane
By the Vietnam War, the A-1 was technologically outdated, yet still effective. The U.S. military has long relied upon jet engines for its fighter and attack aircraft. As early as ...
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
Meanwhile, hard on O’Hare’s heels in Lexington lore was a Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless team whose activities seemed just as much devoted to fighters as to dive bombers. John Arthur Leppla was born ...