When one thinks of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations in the months leading up to the Battle of Midway, one name that readily comes to mind is Lt. Edward "Butch" O'Hare, the F4F-3 Wildcat pilot ...

Folsom would leave Guadalcanal with three air-to-air kills – after downing a pair of Betty Bombers and a D3A Type 99 “Val,” a carrier-based Japanese dive bomber.

In his Grumman F4F Wildcat, the tough-as-nails American ace Joe Foss lead his squadron to a victory in the Pacific Theater in January 1943. Wikimedia Commons And rugged it was.