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Every Marine a Rifleman...and Some a World War II Ace


Every Marine a Rifleman.and Some a World War II Ace
During the course of the war, Marine aviators were credited with shooting down 2,355 Japanese aircraft while losing 573 of their own in combat, producing 120 aces, and earning 11 Medals of Honor. F4Us would claim 2,140 of the shootdowns at the loss of only 189 Corsairs.
Key point: These accounts tell what it was like to fight in World War II.
“As a returning flight of Marine SBDs, dive bombers, were setting down on the airstrip, one of the planes lost a bomb which had failed to release during the mission. The bomb skidded down the runway and came to a stop in the middle of the field. No one knew if the bomb was armed. Everyone was ducking for cover. Where it lay it was preventing other planes from landing. So, Al Tierny, from St. Paul, Minnesota, and I volunteered to go out and get the bomb off the runway. We jumped in a small truck with a hoist and went out and hooked the bomb up, lifted it off the ground, and got ....

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Aviator Charles Lindbergh related to early settler, Wayne County, PA


Tri-County Independent
WAYNE & PIKE - Charles A. Lindbergh, the famed aviator who was first to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927, was descended from one of Wayne County, Pa. s early non-native settlers, and visited here at least once to look up his roots, in later years.
Lindbergh also made headlines here a year after his solo transatlantic flight, when one of his planes crashed in the woods of Pike County, killing two aviators (Lindbergh was not aboard).
A sketch of Lindbergh
First, here is a brief account of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. He was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1902.
Following his passion, he learned to fly in 1922 and was soon barnstorming in the Mid-West as a wing walker and parachutist. In 1924 he entered the United States Army Air Service and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Service Reserve Corps. ....

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