Hardcore SOB right there. Couldn’t get into the fight with American neutrality, so he goes off and Joins Claire Chennaults flying tigers. Killing Japanese pilots before Pearl Harbor. Flying my favorite aircraft of all time, the F4U “Corsair”.
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He was flying the Curtis P40 prior to WWII. He did not fly the Corsair until he was stationed at Vella Lavella with VMF-214.