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Dean “Diz” Laird, the only known WWII Navy ace who shot down both German and Japanese planes, is photographed on Oct. 25, 2012, in San Diego, Calif. (Sean M. Haffey/ San Diego Union-Tribune)If you had told any of Dean “Diz” Laird’s friends or family that he would die of old age at 101, they probably would have written you off as crazy. Between 1942 and 1945, Laird spent much of his time weaving through bullets over the Pacific and Atlantic oceans in a Grumman Wildcat or Hellcat, […]
Originally published at Tammer Bagdasarian