In 2013, Laird was entered into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame and is remembered as the only US Navy ace to have combat victories in both the Pacific and European theaters of World War ...

Mr. Vraciu was credited with destroying 19 Japanese planes in the air and 21 on the ground — ranking for several months as the Navy’s top fighter ace ... for many of us, was our payback ...

Navy Adm. Noel A.M. Gayler, 96, an ace combat pilot during World War II who served as President Richard M. Nixon’s first director of the National Security Agency and retired as commander of all ...