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Fighter aces in World War II had tremendously varying kill scores, affected as they were by many factors: the pilot's skill level, the performance of the airplane the pilot flew and the planes they flew against, how long they served, their opportunity to meet the enemy in the air (Allied to Axis disproportion), whether they were the formation's leader or a wingman, the standards their air ...
Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is the commanding officer of VMF-214, a Marine squadron of "misfit" fighter pilots based on the Solomon Islands campaign and Bougainville campaign from 1943 to 1945 during World War II. Pappy often intercedes in altercations of the pilots at the base, but everyone seems to pull together when they are assigned ...
Events that lead to WWII up to Pearl Harbor from the perspective of two families 1983 1983 United Kingdom The Fourth Arm: 1984 1984 Australia The Last Bastion: Mini-series about Australia's relationship with its allies during World War II 1984 1984 Ireland Caught in a Free State: 1984 1984 East Germany Front ohne Gnade: 1984 1984 United Kingdom
Greg Boyington, American World War II U.S. Marine Corps fighter ace [20] Paul Gunn, American World War II Army Air Force bomber pilot "Pete" Frank K. Everest, Jr., American test pilot; Marc Mitscher, American World War II carrier admiral; Elwood R. Queseda, American fighter ace "Petit Rouge" (French: Little Red) – Manfred von Richthofen ...
Serving in the RAF, he became the first American ace of World War II [316] Parker Dupouy American Volunteer Group, USAAF 6.5 [2] Dewey F. Durnford USMC 6.5 DFC (3) [317] Glenn T. Eagleston: USAAF 18.5 DSC, SS Top ace in the 9th Air Force, claimed 2 additional victories during the Korean War [318] Hoyt A. Eason 6 SS MIA 3 March 1943 [319] Clyde ...
Robert Anderson Hoover (January 24, 1922 – October 25, 2016) was an American fighter pilot, test pilot, flight instructor, and record-setting air show aviator.. Hoover flew Spitfires in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and was shot down in 1944 off the coast of France.
Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle (Russian: В бой идут одни «старики», romanized: V boy idut odni "stariki"; one of the meanings of the Russian idiom 'old man' is 'most experienced person') is an iconic 1973 Soviet war drama black-and-white film produced in the USSR about World War II fighter pilots, written and directed by Leonid Bykov, who also played the lead role as ...
prone pilot jet fighter/dive bomber Horten Ho 229: Germany: 1944: 3: jet flying wing fighter Hughes D-2: ... The Hamlyn Concise Guide to Axis Aircraft of World War II ...