Edward “Butch” O’Hare, the F4F-3 Wildcat pilot whose five aerial victories in defense of the carrier Lexington on Feb. 20, 1942, made him both the Navy’s first World War II fighter ace and ...
If you want to follow, minute by minute, five of the major engagements of World War II in the Pacific as recorded ... to better grasp the flow of the naval war. The first battle addressed is the ...