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Given Command of the
VF-12,
calls him a "WWII Ace with 12 enemy planes to his credit" in the Jacksonville Jax Air News December 3, 1953
The Navy declared him a WWII Ace
in 1945 published in the Tucson Daily Citizen February 24, 1945
Lightburst (
talk) 15:21, 22 July 2020 (UTC)reply
KEEP The article was massively improved
[1], and for the reasons others have mentioned. Clearly notable in his field.
DreamFocus 15:24, 22 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Weak keep on the presumption that being an air ace is enough, but many of the sources used in this article are dubious. What, for example, makes acepilots.com, Honor365.org or ussessex.org
reliable?
Peacemaker67 (
click to talk to me) 08:51, 24 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Reply. Whatever the basis for this observation, they are redundant sources. For example, they corroborate this magazine article Dorr, Robert F. (21 October 2019).
"Sharp Shooting Hellcat "Mac" McWhorter Runs Up the Score"(PDF). Flight Journal. Retrieved 22 July 2020. and the books and multiple other sources.
Toliver, Raymond F.; Constable, Trevor J (1979). Fighter Aces of the U.S.A. Fallbrook, California:
Aero Publishers, Inc. p. 385.
ISBN0-8168-5792-X. Library of Congress card number 79-53300
Young, Edward M. (18 March 2014).
F6F Hellcat Aces of VF-9 (Aircraft of the Aces (Book 119) ed.). Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing. p. 43.
ISBN978-1782003359. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
Read them. The sourcing issue is illusory. 7&6=thirteen (
☎) 11:14, 24 July 2020 (UTC)reply
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