[HiJinx]

That is so true. The reason air superiority was critical is that it gave US airmen the relative freedom to engage the Japanese warships, when they showed, without worrying too much about Japanese fighters.

There's another post running today about the Christmas Truce of 1914, and someone said that never happened again afterwards. Well, true, but not quite. Joe Foss and Saburo Sakai have met on several occasions since the war. Sakai likes to remind Joe that he shot Joe down, and Joe just responds with a friendly nod. They've been able to separate their war years from the rest of their lives, and are amicable to this day. Sadly, Joe's days are probably just about over.

HJ

[FreedomPoster]

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, did you read about Joe, while travelling to West Point to speak to the cadets, almost getting his Medal of Honor confiscated by the morons at airport security? They were worried about him using the medal as a weapon!