Carl was with the marine fliers on Midway, during the great battle, and shot down one Zero there. I asked him how the Zeros he was meeting over Guadalcanal compared with those at Midway.
"I dunno why," he said, "but we got shot up a lot more there than we do here. Maybe the pilots were better than these."
Probably true. The Japanese lost a lot of experienced pilots at Midway. According to the bio they lost one more on this day.
It is believed that on August 26 Carl shot down the famous Japanese Navy Tainan Kokutai ace Junichi Sasai over Henderson Field.
How awful that General Carl was to die during a home invasion robbery in 1998.