Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:59 am
Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:05 am
Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:48 pm
Tue Jul 26, 2011 7:58 pm
JOMiller wrote:VF-15, "The Fabled Fifteen", "Satan's Playmates" or what ever you
want to call them stand alone. In a single tour aboard USS ESSEX
they ammassed 310 confirmed aerial kills. Led by CAG "Dashing Dave"
McCampbell from Bessemer, AL, the Navy's all time leading ace with
34 kills and a MoH recipient, they were beyond compare. They flew
the best fighter of WWII, the Grumman F6F Hellcat. With a 19 to 1
kill ratio, it gets no better. Piloted by the best of the best, the Hellcat,
collectively know as "The Big Blue Blanket" swept the Japanese from
the skies over the Pacific, protected the greatest fleet the world has
ever known, enabled the island hopping campaign, and put the AAF in
a position to deliver "Little Boy" and "Fat Man".