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Stanley Winfield "Swede"
Vejtasa (27 July 1914 – 23
January 2013) was a
United States Navy
career officer and
World War II
flying ace.
During the Battle...
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Swede Vejtasa, who
claimed that it is
ineffective when
faced with
experienced attacking pilots.
During the
training sessions,
James Flatley and
Vejtasa tested...
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Towers Charles R.
Train Richmond K.
Turner Frank B.
Upham Stanley W.
Vejtasa, (three awards) also a USN
fighter ace
Corydon M. W****ell Ivan Wettengel...
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attitudes to the
fighters that
attacked them. SBD
pilot Stanley "Swede"
Vejtasa was
attacked by
three A6M2 Zero fighters; he shot down two of them and...
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escorting Zeros shot down four
Yorktown SBDs. One of the survivors,
Swede Vejtasa,
claimed three Zeros during the
onslaught (though none were lost). The...
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aircraft squadrons List of
United States Navy
aircraft squadrons Swede Vejtasa "Lineage for
Fighter Squadrons" (PDF).
Naval History and
Heritage Command...
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attacks on Hornet.
Although the U.S. CAP,
including fighter pilot Swede Vejtasa, was able to
shoot down or
damage several dive
bombers (the
formation leader...
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William D.
McGarry United
States American Volunteer Group 10+1⁄4
Stanley W.
Vejtasa United
States U.S. Navy 11 Ace in a day (26
October 1942)
Georgy Zakharov...
- II U.S.
submarine force commander,
inventor of the
Momsen lung
Stanley Vejtasa, US Navy
Fighter Ace of
World War II "The
Swedish knight" – Sir Sidney...
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program are
pilots Captain Donald "Flash" Gordon,
Stanley "Swede"
Vejtasa,
Captain Norman "Dusty" Kleiss, Rear
Admiral James D. Ramage, and Bruce...
