Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...

20, 1942, made him both the Navy’s first World War II fighter ace and its first WWII aviator to receive ... as much devoted to fighters as to dive bombers. John Arthur Leppla was born in Lima ...

Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting ... seemed just as much devoted to fighters as to dive bombers. John Arthur Leppla was born in Lima, Ohio, on May 7, 1916.

Bombers took on different roles during World War II, depending on size, but many were multi-role aircraft. True “heavies” like the B-17, Lancaster, or the B-29 had strategic roles, bombing ...

They formed an integral part of our war effort during the 'Blitz' – the WWII Luftwaffe bombing campaign ... were built to divert bombers away from key industrial buildings nearby, such as ...

A deep water dive team search the seabed off the coast of Northern Ireland for the forgotten shipwrecks of WWII's Battle of the Atlantic. Presented by Jules Hudson, the series follows underwater ...