April 30, 1944, the island-hopping campaigns of the Pacific Theatre raged on. Navy Lieutenant John A. Burns, piloting a Vought Kingfisher floatplane from battleship North Carolina, approached the ...
In February 1945, Lieutenant Gandy flew a low-performance OS2U Kingfisher floatplane, armed only with light defensive machine guns, on a reconnaissance mission over Iwo Jima. The Kingfisher, with a ...