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

faced the Japanese carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku and light carriers Zuiho and Junyo off the Santa Cruz Islands. As U.S. forces headed toward the Japanese fleet, U.S. aircraft passed Japanese planes ...

when the aircraft was used to sink two Japanese vessels, the light aircraft carrier (CVL) Shoho and the fleet carrier Shokaku. But the Coral Sea was a relative warm-up for the SBD Dauntless ...

They had a devastating impact on the Japanese carrier fleet, sinking HIJMS Taiho and HIJMS Shokaku at the Battle of Philippine Sea, the gigantic HIJMS Shinano during transit, and several other ...