| 1. |  | Lt. J.G. Alex Vraciu Climbs out of his Grumman Hellcat F6F Aboard the USS Lexington | Airplanes, Military; World War, 1939-1945; United States Navy Pacific Fleet; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean | Alex Vraciu of East Chicago, Indiana, flew for the U.S. Navy in the Pacific on a variety of aircraft carriers. By war's end, Vraciu had shot down nineteen Japanese planes, destroyed another twenty-one... |
