Military Aviation Art
Christmas
Day, 1941. American Volunteer Group Flight Leader Parker Dupouy finds his
guns jammed during combat high over the Gulf of Martaban. Determined to
bring down his adversary, he rams the Hayabusa Oscar of Lt. Hiroshi
Okuyama of the JAAF 64th Sentai. Though he lost four feet of his wingtip
and his entire aileron, Dupouy made it back to his base to fight another
day. Lt. Okuyama's aircraft, however, broke up in flight and carried him
to his death. Dupouy went on to score 6.5 victories in the air before
war's end.
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