[norton]

"The only American pilots that fought in that style, were United States Army pilots."

(IIRC): Check out Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors...F4F pilot, Japanese battleship, .38 revolver. (great read)

[ansel12]

The truth is that when I posted that, I was making a kind of humorous reminding crack about WWI, I had totally forgotten about hearing such things from WWII, and I think that I had only heard about the one.

Here is a forum poster’s description of the incident you posted.

“The author puts you “all over the place”, including in the cockpit of a TBM Avenger where the pilot runs out of ordnance, so he dives on a Japanese battleship, yanks the canopy back, starts hurling every loose object he can reach at the ship (like a Coke bottle and his clipboard) and finally starts blasting away with his .38 revolver.”

[Spktyr]

The Battle off Samar - where the Imperial Japanese Navy finally learned that the Americans of the time were more ferocious and crazy than they were.