Vought-Sikorsky OS2U Kingfisher reconnaissance aircraft shot down over the Pacific and took a few Japs out as I crashed
The Vought-Sikorsky OS2U Kingfisher served as an observer aircraft, anti-submarine aircraft, and rescue aircraft.
The most famous incident involving a Kingfisher was the rescue of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who ditched in the Pacific in a B-17 during 1942. A Kingfisher picked up Rickenbacker and two other crew members (who still remained following a rescue the previous day) but the Kingfisher could not take off because the load was too great. The OS2U pilot taxied on the surface over 40 miles to make the nearest landfall with everyone aboard.
p.s. with a little help from my man
