High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Murray Hanson (February 4, 1920-February 3, 1944) was a Marine Corps aviator who shot down 25 Japanese planes from the South Pacific skies. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. A master of individual air combat, he downed 20 enemy planes in six consecutive flying days. 1stLt Hanson was commended in the citation accompanying the Medal of Honor for his bold attack against six enemy torpedo bombers, November 1, 1943, over Bougainville Island, and for bringing down four Zeros, the premier Japanese fighter, while fighting them alone over New Britain, January 24, 1944.