Word: hare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...encounters in the Far East, and all substantially successful. One group of these: task-force operations, the brilliant raids led by Vice Admiral Halsey on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands, on Wake and Marcus. Others were miscellaneous actions such as that in which Lieut, (now Lieut. Commander) O'Hare shot down five Jap bombers when a U.S. task force was itself under attack...
...model Wildcat. Last February, carrier-based Wildcats engaged Japanese land-based aircraft over the Marshall Islands, shot down ten fighters and three bombers without loss of a single U.S. plane. At Wake Island, two Marines in Wildcats sank a Jap cruiser with bombs. Lieut. Commander Edward ("Butch") O'Hare was at a Wildcat's controls when he bagged five Jap bombers and crippled another in a single engagement...
...decoration, the Congressional Medal of Honor; the Secretary of the Navy promoted him from lieutenant to lieutenant commander; his home town (St. Louis) gave him the wildest public ovation since Hero Lindbergh's return there 15 years ago. Thus 28-year-old Naval Aviator Edward H. O'Hare, who shot down five Jap bombers in the Pacific, damaged a sixth, in one flight from a U.S. aircraft carrier, had the week of his life...
Also a part of his week was something that comes to few heroes, a court decision in Chicago which assured him some $80,000. His father, Edward J. O'Hare, was originally a brilliant St. Louis lawyer, too smart for his breeches. Father O'Hare became a wealthy Chicago operator of race tracks (for nags and dogs), notorious "front man" for Al Capone and other gangsters, and was shotgunned to death from a passing automobile a week and a day before Scarface Al got out of the pen in 1939. Against Father O'Hare...
Home from the wars was Naval Air Hero Lieut. Edward H. O'Hare. Summoned to Washington with his bride of seven months, he soon learned why: to receive decorations from President Roosevelt...