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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (34753)8/12/1999 4:58:00 AM
From: ZinMaster  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
"Butch O'hare was later killed, November 1943, during the
The Great Marianas "Turkey Shoot" in the battle for the
Gilbert islands in the Pacific. He was accidentally shot
down by another American airplane on the first successful night-fighter operation from a carrier."

aviation-history.com
airpower.maxwell.af.mil

...the details there differ somewhat from your version,
but then they also differ from what was written in his
biography. In any case, facts should never stand in the
way of a good story.

Apparently, Butch's father was involved in organized crime
and squeeled on Al Capone. He was later killed in retribution.
The O'Hares are all over Chicago history.
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