First Lieutenant Herman H. Spoede, Jr., was a pilot assigned to VMF-213, a Marine fighter squadron based at Guadalcanal in the summer of 1943. He was well known among the “Hell Hawks” as the squadron’s first pilot to score a confirmed kill. The painting by Lt. John Erwin Ramsay depicts U.S. Marine Corps pilot 1st Lt. Herman H. Spoede II entering his fighter plane just hours before disappearing on July 3, 1943.
Herman H. Spoede, II
Herman H. Spoede, II
Herman H. Spoede, II
First Lieutenant Herman H. Spoede, Jr., was a pilot assigned to VMF-213, a Marine fighter squadron based at Guadalcanal in the summer of 1943. He was well known among the “Hell Hawks” as the squadron’s first pilot to score a confirmed kill. The painting by Lt. John Erwin Ramsay depicts U.S. Marine Corps pilot 1st Lt. Herman H. Spoede II entering his fighter plane just hours before disappearing on July 3, 1943.