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Pappy visits Col. Lard in Espritos Marcos, and learns that Lard plans to remove the Black Sheep from combat duty due to excessive rules violations. When Pappy returns, he finds Major Red Buell, the man from whom he stole the Corsairs, taking charge of a new squadron on Vella la Cava. 1.02: Small War: Sept. 28, 1976: Walter Doniger: René ...
The pilot Lt. Pezzella was drafted his senior year at Fordham University and was the captain of the golf team and quarterback prior to his draft. 3 March Two medium bombers out of Barksdale Field , Louisiana, collide in mid-air ~20 miles N of Shreveport , killing twelve crew, the wreckage coming down on the banks of the Red River . [ 237 ]
The first fighter plane to land on Munda was a VMF-215 Corsair flown by Maj Robert G. Owens, Jr., on 14 August 1943. As action in the Solomons drew to a close the squadron was sent to Turtle Bay Airfield where it was not deactivated but existed only on paper for a few weeks. [ 12 ]
On 15 January 1945 during an attack on Toboi, southwest of Rabaul, by Corsairs from 14 and 16 Squadrons, a 14 Squadron Corsair was shot down and the pilot parachuted into Simpson Harbour. 14 and 16 Squadron Corsairs provided fighter cover for a possible rescue operation until the evening when, low on fuel they returned to Green Island ...
The Black Corsair: Italy Vitale De Stefano: Rodolfo Badaloni: Based on The Black Corsair: Cold Steel: United States Sherwood MacDonald: J. P. McGowan, Kathleen Clifford, Stanhope Wheatcroft: Il figlio del corsaro rosso: Italy Vitale De Stefano: Based on Son of the Red Corsair: La regina dei Caraibi: Italy Vitale De Stefano: La Bella Argentina ...
John Thomas Blackburn (January 24, 1912 – March 21, 1994) was an American naval aviator, World War II flying ace, [2] and the first commanding officer of the famed F4U Corsair squadron VF-17 Jolly Rogers.
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They decided to bring Storm to Redwall, led by a reclusive, paranoid Eurasian red squirrel, Pakatugg. At Terramort Isle, Saltar the corsair, brother of Bludrigg, arrived with the Darkqueen . Saltar dueled Gabool, but was treacherously killed in a trap.