The 5-Minute Dogfight of Jesus Villamor in a Boeing P-26 Peashooter — Facing Faster Enemy Aircraft

Описание: December 12, 1941. The Philippines are falling. In the days following Pearl Harbor, the Japanese war machine is sweeping across the Pacific, obliterating Allied airpower on the ground. Against an incoming armada of 54 modern Japanese bombers and fighters, the 6th Pursuit Squadron has only one desperate answer: six obsolete Boeing P-26 Peashooters.

Captain Jesus A. Villamor knows the mathematics of his survival are essentially zero. His P-26 is a relic from 1932—an open-cockpit fighter with fixed landing gear, twin synchronized machine guns, and bracing wires that scream in a dive.

He is climbing to meet Mitsubishi A6M Zeros and G3M Nell bombers that outclass him in every conceivable metric. A direct fight is suicide. But standing on the ground while his country is bombed is not an option. Pushing his Wasp radial engine to its limits, Villamor leads a screaming dive right into the defensive blind spots of the Japanese formation.

What follows is a chaotic, 5-minute geometry problem of survival in the tropical skies over Batangas. Using the Peashooter's only "advantage"—its agonizingly slow speed and heavy drag—Villamor forces a fatal, high-speed overshoot from a diving Zero, turning an impossible disadvantage into one of the most audacious, point-blank kills of the early Pacific War.

This is the untold story of the man who flew a museum piece into an armada, earning two Distinguished Service Crosses for five minutes of impossible courage.

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