Pilots of Fighting ThreePilots and Gunners of
"Scouting Five"Pilots and Gunners of Bombing
ThreePilots and Gunners of Torpedo
Three| The
Battle of Midway June 3 - 6, 1942 |
APPENDIX FOUR: UNITED STATES CARRIER AIR GROUP PERSONNEL BIOS |
Yorktown
Airgroup
Pilots of Fighting Three
Pilots and Gunners of
"Scouting Five"
Pilots and Gunners of Bombing
Three
Pilots and Gunners of Torpedo
Three
Enterprise
Airgroup
Pilots of
Fighting Six
Pilots and
Gunners of Scouting Six
Pilots and
Gunners of Bombing Six
Pilots and
Gunners of Torpedo Six
Hornet Airgroup
Pilots of
Fighting Eight
Pilots and
Gunners of Scouting Eight
Pilots and
Gunners of Bombing Eight
Pilots and
Gunners of Torpedo Eight
USS Yorktown CV-3, Aircraft Personnel Bios, 28 May 1942
Fighting Squadron Three (VF-3)
"Scouting" (Bombing) Squadron Five (VS-5)
| Adams,
Sam LT Ammen, John N., Jr., ENS Berger, Nels Luther A. LT(jg) Berry, David Render LT(jg) Bridgers, John David ENS Christie,William Francis LT(jg) Clegg, Earnest A., ARM2c Comer, Liston R. ENS Conatser, Charles Neal LT(jg) Conzett, Elmer A. ENS Cowden, Harold R., ARM1c Dickson, Harlan Rockey LT Fives, Norbert A., ARM3c Forshee Lynn Raymond, ARM3c Gardner, John F., ARM3c Getz, Leon L., ARM3c Gibson, Robert D. ENS Harp, Wilburn D., ARM3c Hollinsworth, Gerald E., SEA1c Horenburger, Carl Herman ENS Iacovazzi, John, ARM3c |
Johnson,
William, ARM3c Karrol, Joseph John, ARM1c Kline, Raymond Phillip LT(jg) Larsen, Leif Walther ENS Lynch, Joseph Michael, Jr., ARM2c McDowell, Henry Martin LT(jg) McGowan, Henry P., Jr., ARM2c Miligi, Raymond, Jr., ENS Mohler, William R., ARM3c Nielsen, John Ludwig LT Phelps, Otis Albert, ACRM(PA) Phelps, Otto Russell, ACRM(PA) Preston, Benjamin Gifford ENS Richey, Gerald S ENS Short, Wallace Clark, Jr. LT Sobel, Alvin A., ARM1c Straub, Walter Dean, ACRM(PA) Strickland, Eugene C., ARM2c Trott, John W., ACRM(PA) Wilger, Harold J., ARM3c Wolfe, Richard Frederick ENS |
| Charles
Westbrook Albright, ARM2c William R. Anderson, AMM3c Clifton R. Bassett, AOM2c Harmon Donald Bennett, ARM2c ENS Robert Haines Benson David Donald Berg, ARM3c Dallas Joseph Bergeron, ARM3c Frederick Paul Bergeron, ARM3c LT Harold Sydney Bottomley Charles C Brassel, AOM1c ENS John Clarence Butler ENS Robert Keith Campbell Duane John Chaffee, ARM3c ENS Phillip Walker Cobb ENS Bunyon Randolph Cooner Ray Edgar Coons, ARM1c Horace Henry Craig, AMM1c Grant Ulysses Dawn, ARM3c ENS Robert Martin Elder William Earl Gallagher, ARM1c Joseph Vernon Godfrey, ARM3c |
ENS
Aldon W. Hansen Jack Charles Henning, ARM2c LT(jg) Paul Algodte Holmberg ENS Roy Maurice Isaman David Frederick Johnson, AMM2c ENS Charles S. Lane George Albert LaPlant, AMM2c LCDR Maxwell Franklin Leslie ENS Milford Austin Merrill ENS Raymond Morrow Reynolds ENS Jack Rugen Theodore Schevon, ARM3c ENS Paul Wahl Schlegel LT(jg) Gordon Alvin Sherwood Jack Alvan Shropshire, ARM3c LT DeWitt Wood Shumway Leslie Alan Till, RM3c Sidney Kay Weaver, ARM3c LT(jg) Osborne Beeman Wiseman Clarence E. Zimmershead, ARM2c |
| Wendell M.
Anderson, ARM2c Ens. John M. Armitage Fred A. Austin, AMM2c MACH John Russell Baker Robert Boyd Brazier, ARM2c Troy L. Barkley, ARM2c Jack O. Bacholette, ARM3c Charles R. Beaty, AMM2c MACH Harry Lee Corl Lloyd Fred Childers, ARM3c John Ralph Cole, ARM1c Russell W. Crick, ARM3c Herman K. Calahan, AMM2c Wayne E. Childers, AMM2c Calvin P. Crouch, AMM3c Raymond Joseph Darce, ARM3c Benjamin R. Dodson, Jr., ARM3c Warren A. Deitsch, AMM2c Walter E. Dillon, AMM3c Albert G. DeWeber, AM3c Wilhelm George Esders, CAP Richard C. Groad, ARM3c Herman I. Girard, AOM3c Don Goff, AOM3c LT(jg) Curtis William Howard CH MACH John William Haas |
LT Patrick
Henry Hart LT(jg) Fred Cone Herriman Richard Matthew Hanson, ARM3c Ervin H. Herr, AOM3c Harold C. Lundy, Jr., ARM1c David H. Lane, ARM3c Henry Lozeau, AOM3c LCDR Lance Edward Massey Charles Lee Moore, ARM3c Joseph Emile Mandeville, SEA2c Robert C. McDaniel, AOM1c ENS Carl August Osberg ENS Wesley Frank Osmus ENS Oswald A. Powers Leo Edward Perry, ACRM(AA) William A. Phillips, Jr., ARM3c Hartford K. Parks, Sea2c ENS David John Roche Charles O. Roe, AOM3c ENS Leonard L. Smith LT(jg) Richard Wayne Suesens ENS Gerald Russell Stablein ENS Otho Henry Schneider Clealand D. Stanley, AOM1c RAD ELEC Werner Innocenz Weis |
Personnel biographies were complied from various source. Those crew members that I spoke to are marked with an (*).
I wish to thank sincerely George Wayne McMullan for providing me data from his numerous sources, as most of the information you see here is his.
I also wish to thank Mark E. Horan, author of A Glorious Page in Our History: The Battle of Midway 4 - 6 June 1942 , for providing me with the complete list of pilots and crewmembers you see on this page.
Arial victory totals from The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway, John B. Lundstrom, Appendix 6 pp. 490-495.
NOTES:
All information as of March 12, 1998. Rank is as of June 4, 1942. Assigned A/C (aircraft) is the plane to which the aviator was assigned. In many instances, however, pilots flew aircraft other than those to which they were assigned (SEE the Carrier and Midway Air-ops pages for information regarding plane assignments for specific missions). Decorations include those received for action at Midway.