Question: Albert O. Vorse Jr. served in fighter squadrons with which first flying ace of the Navy?

<P0-S0> Albert Ogden "Scoop" Vorse Jr. was an accomplished World War II naval ace who participated in some of the most prominent actions of the Pacific Theater, including the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Guadalcanal Campaign. <P0-S1>  Vorse served in early fighter squadrons with legendary figures like Butch O'Hare and Jimmy Thach. <P0-S2>  Rising in rank throughout the war, he would act as Executive Officer and Operations Officer in different squadrons before being given command of his own squadron, VF-80, the eponymous "Vorse's Vipers". <P0-S3>  Vorse ended the war as commander of Air Group 80 and ultimately achieved Rear Admiral status before his retirement from the U.S. Navy in 1959. <SEP> <P1-S0> Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Edward Leonard Ellington, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (30 December 1877 – 13 June 1967) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force. <P1-S1>  He served in the First World War as a staff officer and then as Director-General of Military Aeronautics and subsequently as Controller-General of Equipment. <P1-S2>  In the inter-war years he held command positions in the Middle East, in India and then in Iraq. <P1-S3>  He served as Chief of the Air Staff in the mid-1930s and in that role he implemented a plan, known as 'Scheme F', to increase the size of the Royal Air Force to 187 squadrons (five bomber squadrons for every two fighter squadrons reflecting the dominance of the bomber strategy at the time) within three years to counter the threat from Hitler's Germany. <P1-S4>  He also broke up the command known as "Air Defence of Great Britain" to create RAF Fighter Command, RAF Bomber Command, RAF Coastal Command and RAF Training Command. <P1-S5>  He then served as Inspector-General of the RAF until his retirement in 1940. <SEP> <P2-S0> Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry “Butch” O’Hare (March 13, 1914 – November 26, 1943) was an American naval aviator of the United States Navy, who on February 20, 1942, became the Navy's first flying ace when he single-handedly attacked a formation of nine heavy bombers approaching his aircraft carrier. <P2-S1>  Even though he had a limited amount of ammunition, he managed to shoot down or damage several enemy bombers. <P2-S2>  On April 21, 1942, he became the first naval recipient of the Medal of Honor in World War II. <SEP> <P3-S0>  In April, 1944 the No. 5 OTS Heavy Conversion unit stood up at Boundary Bay when 16 B-24 Liberators arrived fresh from American factories. <P3-S1>  In addition to the new squadrons, new aircraft types came on line replacing the command's remaining Supermarine Stranraers and Blackburn Sharks with Canso's and the Bolingbrokes and Beauforts with the Lockheed Ventura. <P3-S2>  During another interception a Canso forced down a fire balloon which was examined at the army headquarters. <P3-S3>  Four of them equipped with obsolete aircraft including a bomber squadron with aircraft from the Great War and there were no fighter aircraft at all for its only fighter squadron (113 Fighter Squadron was thus disbanded). <P3-S4>  By the end of the war the command would involve some twenty squadrons when the last units to join were added in 1943. <P3-S5>  They were the No. 3 OTS flying the Canso and Catalina and No. 32 OTS with Ansons, Beauforts and Swordfish at Patricia Bay. <P3-S6>  By January 1943 Western Air Command had expanded to include many bomber, fighter and operational units under its control. <P3-S7>  On 10 March, Pilot Officer J. O. Patten destroyed a balloon near Saltspring Island, British Columbia. <P3-S8>  Countless training missions and operational patrols bolstered the air activity over the coastal areas but there was not much action until RCAF Western Command was on the look out for General Kusaba's Fire Balloons that the Japanese called the Fūsen Bakudan Campaign. <P3-S9>  These were the 163 Army Cooperation Squadron in March flying Bristol Bolingbrokes and Hawker Hurricanes, in May the 160 Bomber-Reconnaissance Squadron was added flying Cansos from Sea Island BC (before moving to Yarmouth NS in July) and the 166 Communication Squadron formed in September flying various types. <P3-S10>  With the Japanese threat after Pearl Harbor it grew rapidly and played a critical role in fighter and anti-submarine operations in Canadian and American waters during the Aleutian Islands Campaign. <P3-S11>  P.M.G. Thomas of No. 115 Squadron RCAF then led American Destroyers to sink the damaged submarine. <P3-S12>  It was there that Squadron Leader K.A. Boomer of No. 111 Squadron shot down a Rufe fighter, the RCAF's only kill in the Pacific Theatre. <P3-S13>  When Canada declared war against Germany in September 1939 the command consisted of only five squadrons. <P3-S14>  With the unconditional surrender of Japan the RCAF's Tiger Force bomber squadrons were disbanded before they flew overseas and the total draw down of the Western Air Command was suddenly undertaken.