Word: grummans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House. Big, blond Lieut. Alexander Vraciu Jr., currently the Navy's top-ranking fighter pilot, collected $1,900 (for 19 Jap planes) from an admiring uncle. He married Kathryn Horn, his slim and pretty sweetheart, and hurried her off to New York to visit the Grumman aircraft plant...
...Grumman planes saved Guadalcanal" -Navy Secretary Forrestal...
...Washington the Navy let word leak out that it had reduced all of its fighter-plane production, even that of Long Island's famed Grumman Aircraft (Hellcats and Wildcats). Before long the Navy, pleased at the low losses in small landing craft on the French beachhead, expects to cut back this program, which has had a longtime No. 1 priority...
Guadalcanal. The Pacific war moved south and the Marines moved with it. They fought over Guadalcanal, based on the field which they had named after Loften Henderson. They flew workhorse Douglas bombers. They flew old Grumman fighters against nimbler Zeros, but adapted their tactics to their ship. Major Joe Foss tied Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I record of 26 kills. On one day he got two before lunch, three in the afternoon...
Last month Major Richard Ira Bong, a P-38 Lightning pilot, shot down his 26th and 27th planes over New Guinea, breaking a tie which had long existed between two marine pilots, Major Joe Foss (Grumman Wildcat) and missing Major Gregory Boyington (Vought Corsair). Thus Dick Bong became the U.S. Ace of Aces...