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Cmdr. Alexander Vraciu
United States Navy
from:West Sacramento, CA
Alex Vraciu, 96, a fighter pilot who became one of the Navy's top flying aces during World War II, once downing six Japanese planes in eight minutes during a battle dubbed the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot, died 29th January 2015. He was credited with destroying 19 Japanese planes in the air and 21 on the ground - ranking for several months as the Navy's top fighter ace. His most noted exploit came on the 19th June 1944, during the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The US assault on the Mariana Islands was underway and he had already distinguished himself in the Pacific by shooting down a dozen enemy planes. He said "I had a job to do: Clear the sky".
