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- The great majority of O'Hares, were descendants of the Oriel family of Ohir or Oheir, who were kin to the O'Hanlons and seated in the Barony of Orier, County Armagh in Ireland, where, with the adjacent counties of Antrim and County Down, the O'Hares are still found.
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Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry 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 fighter ace of the war when he single-handedly attacked a formation of nine medium bombers approaching his aircraft carrier.
O'Hare (surname) O'Hare is the anglicised form of the Irish name Ó hÍr. It is an Irish clan (or sept) surname. The earliest reference to the clan Ó Haichir (now O'Hare) is to be found in the Annals of the Four Masters. The great majority of O'Hares, were descendants of the Oriel family of Ohir or Oheir, who were kin to the O'Hanlons and ...
Edward O’Hare was an American aviator and war hero who became the U.S. Navy’s first flying ace during World War II. At the time, a flying ace was a fighter pilot who shot down five or more enemy planes.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A dedicated naval airman, O’Hare was a much-needed hero in the desperate early days of World War II in the Pacific. The O’Hare story is one of determination, heroism, gallantry, and sacrifice. Edward Henry O’Hare was born on March 13, 1914, in St. Louis, Missouri, to parents of German and Irish descent.
The O’Hares were Lords of Magh-Adhair, in the former county. Magh-Adhair was a level district lying between Ennis and Tulla, in the County Clare, i. e., Thomond, so called poetically from the land of Magh-Adhair, the place where the O’Briens were inaugurated.
O'Hare Family History. Recorded as O'Hare and O'Hair, sometimes McHare, or Hare or Hair, this is a famous Irish clan surname. It is said to have been one of the few surnames to resist the temptation in the 17th century to discard the Gaelic prefix O', meaning male descendant of.
Edward Henry “Butch” O’Hare rocketed to fame in February 1942 by singlehandedly taking on eight Japanese torpedo bombers bent on destroying the aircraft carrier USS Lexington and shooting down several of them. For this deed, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decorated him with the Medal of Honor.
