Mike Fink is Manager of Development Content at the Intrepid Museum. An avid researcher/historian, he spent six years combing through archives and interviewing pilots and their families to uncover the incredible true story of “Two-a-Day 18,” Intrepid’s highest-scoring fighting squadron. Fink lives in Wilmington, Delaware. 

Articles by Michael Fink

A group photograph of Fighting Squadron 18 in Hawaii, May 1944.

‘A Deadly Proving Ground’

By Mike Fink
February 2025
In this exclusive book preview, the men of the USS Intrepid’s Fighting Squadron 18, “Harris’ Hellcats,” take to the skies for the epic air battle over Formosa—the largest air-sea clash ...

Books by Michael Fink