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Biographical Note
Contents
Overview of the formation and training in the United States of the second ‘Fighting Two', and its first experience of combat in the Gilberts Invasion.
Development of nightfighters, VF-2 working with ‘Butch' O'Hare to create the US Navy's first nightfighter capability, and the loss of O'Hare in combat.
Operation Forager and the Battle of the Philippine Sea - the ‘Marianas Turkey Shoot' and the Mission Beyond Darkness.
The Bonins Campaign - air battles over Iwo Jima in July 1944 and completion of the Marianas Campaign.
Task Force 38 and the Philippines Campaign. Air battles throughout the Philippine Islands in September 1944 that brought about the later invasion of Leyte Gulf.
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