September 18th 1943 Chris Magee (aka Wildman) of VMF-214 was assigned to cover naval forces involved in a landing at Barakoma. Magee spotted Japanese Val dive bombers heading to bomb the landing craft. He quickly dove on the group and shot down one Val. He then chased them into the friendly anti-aircraft fire where he shot down another in a head on pass. Suddenly he was attacked by Zeros and after taking significant fire he managed to elude the Zeros. At the end of the day he had over 30 bullet holes in his plane, 2 kills and was awarded the Navy Cross.
September 18th 1943 Chris Magee (aka Wildman) of VMF-214 was assigned to cover naval forces involved in a landing at Barakoma. Magee spotted Japanese Val dive bombers heading to bomb the landing craft. He quickly dove on the group and shot down one Val. He then chased them into the friendly anti-aircraft fire where he shot down another in a head on pass. Suddenly he was attacked by Zeros and after taking significant fire he managed to elude the Zeros. At the end of the day he had over 30 bullet holes in his plane, 2 kills and was awarded the Navy Cross.
