A survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack, 41-13297 is the oldest airworthy P-40 in the world. It was restored from 1990 to 2001 and flew again in January 2007. A survivor of the Pearl Harbor...
Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina BuNo 2419 was flown by Ensign William Tanner of VP-14 on 7 December 1941. Tanner had been warned “to be alert during this period of great tension”. A few hours before the Japanese air raid, Tanner spotted a Japanese midget submarine trying to penetrate the harbor and destroyed it with the assistance of the destroyer USS Ward. Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina BuNo 2419...
Flying from the carrier Akagi, Hirano was part of the first attack wave on Pearl Harbor. At 08:10 he was shot down by AA fire from the USS Helm and Fort Kamehameha near Hickam. Flying from the carrier Akagi, Hirano...
George Welch was one of the few American pilots who managed to get airborne during the Japanese attack on pearl Harbor, and shot down 2.5 aircraft that day. During the war, he flew nearly 350 combat missions and was credited with 16 enemy aircraft destroyed before illness forced him to retire. After the war, Welch became a test pilot. George Welch was one of the few...