A Guadalcanal Fighter Pilot: Lieutenant (jg) Melvin C. Roach

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A Guadalcanal Fighter Pilot: Lieutenant (jg) Melvin C. Roach

VF-5 provided much needed air cover for the 1st Marines on Guadalcanal.* In the late afternoon of 9 October 1942, eleven of their F4F fighters lifted off from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal and headed west. They were acting as escorts for Navy and Marine SBD dive bombers and TBF torpedo planes sent out against an [...]

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