Extraordinary stories - thanks! I have read the war stories of Best and Hudner but had no idea what they did after the war. I wish I could ask my father if he had met some of the Enterprise aviators you describe during his tour aboard in 1941-1942. He did volunteer for flight duty and took his first two lessons (unofficial) in N2S bi…
Extraordinary stories - thanks! I have read the war stories of Best and Hudner but had no idea what they did after the war. I wish I could ask my father if he had met some of the Enterprise aviators you describe during his tour aboard in 1941-1942. He did volunteer for flight duty and took his first two lessons (unofficial) in N2S biplanes at Pearl between the February '42 island raids and the Doolittle raid.
Today we are also remembering my brother John, who became an A-7 pilot with one Vietnam tour in 1970 aboard Oriskany, and another tour aboard the Midway in 1975, where he watched the amazing last day of the war from the bridge. In 1980 John and a student pilot disappeared over the Pacific while flying a T-34.
Extraordinary stories - thanks! I have read the war stories of Best and Hudner but had no idea what they did after the war. I wish I could ask my father if he had met some of the Enterprise aviators you describe during his tour aboard in 1941-1942. He did volunteer for flight duty and took his first two lessons (unofficial) in N2S biplanes at Pearl between the February '42 island raids and the Doolittle raid.
Today we are also remembering my brother John, who became an A-7 pilot with one Vietnam tour in 1970 aboard Oriskany, and another tour aboard the Midway in 1975, where he watched the amazing last day of the war from the bridge. In 1980 John and a student pilot disappeared over the Pacific while flying a T-34.
That last sentence really got me.