Wildcat Warrior

Marine Corps ace of aces Joe Foss wreaked havoc on the Japanese over Guadalcanal, becoming the first to equal Eddie Rickenbacker’s American World War I victory record. After unopposed landings early on August 7, 1942, the invasion of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands—america’s first offensive of World War II—soon devolved into a bitter six-month conflict …

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