McGuire Last fight

[jeanba]

Thank you very much for this very usefull information.
The first version I read of Mc Guire's death was that he stalled while dogfighting against a high ranking Zero ace, then in the begining of the 90's, variants of the version I quoted came to be treated as the most reliable (ie : Mc Guire was caught by surprise by a Franck while chasing an Oscar at low altitude, he stalled and crashed).
Still, Mc Guire is supposed to have been shot down by a japanese ace according to all account I have read, was Mixunori Fukuda an ace ?

Edit : I found a "Fukuda Sumia" 11 kills IJNAF ace who was killed in October 44 ...