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Combat Zone: Jack Glass, USS Enterprise

Sep 13th, 2010 | By
Combat Zone: Jack Glass, USS Enterprise

Jack Glass, 86, looks back on his two years of service aboard the USS Enterprise during World War II, including the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, one of many he feels fortunate to have survived.



Combat Zone: A Tale of Two Aces and One Lucky Number

Jun 15th, 2010 | By
Combat Zone: A Tale of Two Aces and One Lucky Number

As a young man barely out of his teens, John O’Brien was the crew chief for “Number 13,” a fighter plane shared by two Marine aviators who would join the ranks of World War II’s greatest aces. The plane that bore what turned out to be a surprisingly lucky number was a Vought F4U Corsair:
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