Army & Navy - HEROES: The Younger Generation

To military theorists the South Pacific was still a static battle area. But in the day-to-day run of patrols and minor battles, new heroes were born, new air tactics proved by flyers grown skillful and canny in the school of war.

Out from a Solomons base streaked 16 twin-tailed Army Lightning fighters, feathering their own wind-blown wakes as they hugged the water to stay out of the beams of Jap radiodetectors. Near the enemy base at Kahili, twelve of the pilots horsed back on their wheels, ripped skyward with whining turbosuperchargers to give...

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