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Originally Posted by XFORCE005
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It only mentions his achievement of being an "Ace in a Day" during the
Marianna's Turkey Shoot which had nothing to do with the invasion of Leyte. Both of those took part in two different areas of the Pacific.
If you read the book, "Last of the Tin Can Sailors", then you'll know that no F6F Hellcats took part in Leyte because Leyte was a diversion/bluff. And that it was just to try and see what the Japanese Navy was doing. The video I gave, will explain it better than I can at the moment. (Another 4hrs of over time is killing me.
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EDIT: Here is the
Battle of Leyte Gulf. Read over the
Battle off Samar section, and the whole thing for that matter. It mentions FM2s, not F6Fs.