1/72 Scale Grumman F4F-3A Wildcat 'Butch O'Hare's Wildcat'
Hasegawa 1/72 Scale F4F-3 Wildcat kit no. AP128, 'Thatch (sp.) and O'Hare'.
This model depicts 'White F-13', Edward Henry ('Butch') O'Hare's Grumman F4F-3A of Fighting Squadron VF-3, aboard the USS Lexington (CV-2), as it would have appeared in April, 1942.
On April 21, 1942, Butch O'Hare was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions two months earlier on February 20, 1942, when he became the first U.S. Navy fighter ace of World War II by shooting down five Japanese planes and damaging a sixth in a single engagement near Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
1/72 Scale Grumman F4F-3A Wildcat 'Butch O'Hare's Wildcat'
Hasegawa 1/72 Scale F4F-3 Wildcat kit no. AP128, 'Thatch (sp.) and O'Hare'.
This model depicts 'White F-13', Edward Henry ('Butch') O'Hare's Grumman F4F-3A of Fighting Squadron VF-3, aboard the USS Lexington (CV-2), as it would have appeared in April, 1942.
On April 21, 1942, Butch O'Hare was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions two months earlier on February 20, 1942, when he became the first U.S. Navy fighter ace of World War II by shooting down five Japanese planes and damaging a sixth in a single engagement near Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.