United States of America: Boeing B-29 Superfortress Might as well start at the end, i.e. the bomber that brought WWII to an ...

This convoy, for the first time in World War II, had brought together British and Soviet naval units for a common job. They soon had a job to do. German dive-bombers, from the coasts and airdromes ...

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.

Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting ... seemed just as much devoted to fighters as to dive bombers. John Arthur Leppla was born in Lima, Ohio, on May 7, 1916.