Five weeks after taking his wedding vows, Navy pilot Loren Isley was at war with Japan — a 21-year-old Missourian on March 18, 1945 — making what would be his final mission off the vast USS Intrepid ...
Key Points and Summary - Commissioned in August 1943, the Essex-class carrier USS Intrepid fought across the Pacific, surviving a torpedo at Truk and multiple kamikaze strikes while launching raids ...
Lt. Ralph Cornelius DuPont, an F6F-5 Hellcat pilot assigned to Fighting Squadron 18 aboard the USS Intrepid, went Missing In Action Oct. 12, 1944, during World War II's Battle of Formosa. DuPont was ...