The record of Carrier Air Group 15 in World War II is astonishing by any measure: it scored 312 enemy aircraft destroyed, 33 probably destroyed, and 65 damaged in aerial combat, plus 348 destroyed, 161 probably destroyed, and 129 damaged in ground attacks.
Twenty-six Fighting 15 pilots became aces, including their leader, Commander David McCampbell, who became the U.
Navy's Ace of Aces.
Twenty-one squadron pilots were killed in action and one in an operational accident aboard the carrier Ess.
| Measure | It scored 312 enemy aircraft destroyed 33 probably destroyed and 65 damaged in aerial combat plus 348 destroyed 161 probably destroyed and 129 damaged in ground attacks |
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Casemate Fabled fifteen: the pacific war saga of carrier air group 15, paperback/thomas mckelvey cleaver
