An American Hero: Eugene Trowbridge

August 20 of 1942. Nineteen brave pilots of U.S. Marine Fighter Squadron VMF-223 fly into the jaws of Hell. These few aviators will play a major role in the fierce struggle to hold out against the Empire of Japan. Guadalcanal is strategically too important for either country to give it up. The mortgage payment for this real estate will be in blood and much more. This story is about a double-ace.