« on: September 17, 2007, 03:55:18 PM »
Page 1 story in my local paper today “I went over to Ford Island several times, the Navy air base. (Ford Island is in the middle of Pearl Harbor). The airfield was in pretty bad shape. They could get small planes in, but that was all. I made friends with a pilot there.”
On June 4, 1942, when his friend offered him a ride on an SBD-2 divebomber to take medical supplies to Midway Island, he jumped at the chance to take the three-hour flight.
He didn’t know it then, but he was headed into combat.
“We had heard about the war, but we weren’t in it yet,” he said.
Unwittingly, they flew into the middle of an attack by the Japanese on Midway which lasted from June 4 to June 6. Their plane was shot down by enemy fire.
Though I'd share what I read this morning about Ben T. Cornell.
I didn't know that Midway was in the South Pacific, but other than that, the paper did okay...
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