RIP!
I had the pleasure of meeting "Tex" Hill a few years back. He was a Flying Tiger ace with 18.5 kills. The History Channel did a Dogfights sequence on him that was pretty cool. Tex passed last October.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Hill
My father-in-law was a "Grasshopper Pilot" in WWII and Korea. He had quite an interesting career as well.
Grasshopper Pilot