Jumat, 20 Oktober 2017

Old-Fashioned Turkey Shoot

The greatest aircraft carrier battle of all time devolved into a one-sided slaughter in which Japanese attackers served as little more than targets. “Vector 245 degrees, distance 60 miles.” The message from USS Essex’s combat information center crackled through the radio of Air Group 15 commander David McCampbell. He was leading 10 Grumman F6F-3 Hellcats …

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