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Ace of aces is a title accorded to the top active ace within a branch of service in a nation's military in time of war. The term ace was used for highly successfull military professional that have accumulated multiple kills on enemy aircraft shot down, tanks destroyed, ships sunk, by number or tonnage. [ 1 ]
Richard Ira "Dick" Bong (September 24, 1920 – August 6, 1945) was a United States Army Air Forces major and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II.He was one of the most decorated American fighter pilots and the country's top flying ace in the war, credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft, all with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
McCampbell is the United States Navy's all-time leading flying ace (called Ace of the Aces in the Navy) and top F6F Hellcat ace with 34 aerial victories. He was the third-highest American scoring ace of World War II and the highest-scoring American ace to survive the war.
Lightning McQueen has been widely merchandised as part of the Cars franchise. The character has been reproduced by Mattel as a die-cast toy car amongst hundreds of Cars toy vehicles since 2006. [44] In 2011, Mattel released a Lightning McQueen Alive toy, a three-inch reproduction with moving mouth, shoulders and a voice. [45]
The film, which ran $1.5 million over budget and was a box-office flop, almost bankrupted McQueen. One of the movie's Porsche 917s sold for $14 million in 2017 . MorePixels/istockphoto
Ace of Aces is a combat flight simulation game developed by Artech Digital Entertainment and published in 1986 by Accolade in North America and U.S. Gold in Europe. [2] [3] It was released for the Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari 7800, Commodore 64, MSX, MS-DOS, Master System, and ZX Spectrum.
These wild-card aces won’t be able to pull off that feat; the quick turnaround to the Division Series means they’d start a Game 3 at the earliest in the next round. But the runway to craft ...
Richard Bong's P-38 Lightning, nicknamed 'Marge' was flown by another pilot on March 24, 1944, when it crashed due to mechanical troubles. Search team finds plane once flown by a Wisconsin WWII ...