Hellcat Archives » Rhode Island Aviation Hall of Fame https://riahof.org/keyword/hellcat Honoring Rhode Island's Rich Aviation History Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:11:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://riahof.org/wp-content/uploads/riahof-512x512-1-150x150.png Hellcat Archives » Rhode Island Aviation Hall of Fame https://riahof.org/keyword/hellcat 32 32 Colonel Patrick D. Fleming https://riahof.org/field-of-accomplishment/military/us-navy/colonel-patrick-d-fleming-usaf-usn-1917-1955 Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:26:33 +0000 http://www.riahof.dreamhosters.com/?p=782 Colonel Patrick D. Fleming, USAF (USN) (1917-1955) – this former Jamestown resident and 1941 Annapolis graduate was a World War II Hellcat ace and a Navy test pilot who went to flight school in 1943. He received night fighter training at Quonset, where he met his wife-to-be Neville, daughter of  retired Navy Commander Owen Bartlett […]

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]]> Eugene F. McSweeney https://riahof.org/recognition-awarded/inductees/eugene-f-mcsweeney Sat, 22 Nov 2025 20:07:40 +0000 https://riahof.org/?p=2312 Eugene F. McSweeney (1921-2015) was a Navy fighter pilot. McSweeney was sworn in at exercises during the Army-Chicago Bears football game at Boston on September 20, 1942. He flew 79 Hellcat sorties off the carrier USS Bataan in 1945, accruing 305 combat hours. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and five Air Medals. At war’s […]

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]]> Lawrence Webster https://riahof.org/field-of-accomplishment/civilian-aviation/general-aviation/larry-webster Fri, 08 Nov 2013 21:09:09 +0000 http://www.riahof.dreamhosters.com/?p=1032 Charlestown resident Lawrence Webster is an award-winning mechanical engineer known in aviation history circles as the "aluminum undertaker" because of his extensive work excavating air crash sites.

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