Flight Journal – September 2019
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CONTENTS 4 ‹ Editorial 6 ‹ Death at Daybreak A Kiwi Goes to War in a Hawker Tempest by Jack Stafford 14 ‹ Sharp-Shooting Hellcat ...
4 FlightJournal.com EDITORIAL W hen we started researching material for this issue, a fairly unbelievable fact hit us right betw ...
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6 FlightJournal.com A Kiwi Goes to War in a Hawker Tempest BY JACK STAFFORD | ART BY ROY GRINNELL, ROYGRINNELL.COM Death at Dayb ...
WW II Air War 7 Early morning darkness was total as we stumbled cursing from the mess at Uden in the Netherlands. It was the sor ...
8 FlightJournal.com DEATH AT DAYBREAK This over, we left the dispersal carrying our parachutes and moved towards the waiting Tem ...
WW II Air War 9 darkness of the sky. My turn came. Once out on the runway, I opened the throttle, holding the Tempest with the b ...
10 FlightJournal.com DEATH AT DAYBREAK stationary in the sky. As he hung there, he was raising and lowering his undercarriage. I ...
WW II Air War 11 It was sitting there on the tarmac as I walked out. I stood still for a moment and just looked. This aircraft w ...
12 FlightJournal.com DEATH AT DAYBREAK Hyphencalledhissquadronintoformation aroundhimashegotusintosomesortof order. “Spreadoutan ...
WWII Air War 13 few desultory bursts of heavy flak informed us that we had been witnessed by the enemy. As we moved from the are ...
14 FlightJournal.com “Mac” McWhorter Runs Up the Score BY ROBERT F. DORR Through the first half of 1943, several changes were in ...
WW II Air War 15 When retired Cdr. Hamilton “Mac” McWhorter III, 87, died on April 12, 2008, at El Cajon, California, the Navy l ...
16 FlightJournal.com sharp-shooting hellcat I was born in 1921 in Georgia into a middle- class family. I was nine years old when ...
WW II Air War 17 Dramatic Debut It was like going from a Model T Ford to a Cadillac. Consider the simple matter of taking off: t ...
18 FlightJournal.com sharp-shooting hellcat WequalifiedaboardthenewUSSEssex(CV 9)inFebruary1943,werereadytogoinMay andtraversedt ...
WW II Air War 19 and TBF Avenger torpedo bombers. We started toward Rabaul fl ying the standard cover, with the bombers in a box ...
20 FlightJournal.com sharp-shooting hellcat headed back to the rendezvous point. We escorted our bombers back to the Essex. I kn ...
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