<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mwsw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: US flying ace Major <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington" id="mwtA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pappy Boyington">Greg "Pappy" Boyington</a> is shot down in his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_F4U_Corsair" id="mwtQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vought F4U Corsair">Vought F4U Corsair</a> by Captain <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_aces_from_Japan" id="mwtg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="List of World War II aces from Japan">Masajiro Kawato</a> flying a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_A6M_Zero" id="mwtw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mitsubishi A6M Zero">Mitsubishi A6M Zero</a>.<sup about="#mwt125" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-23"}}' id="cite_ref-23" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_3#cite_note-23" id="mwuA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 23;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwuQ">[23]</span></a></sup>
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