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...thought you might like this quote from a letter received from Ensign Malcom S. Walker, Midway Island, dated...
...skipper was first ashore. Then the crew poured ashore. Little boxes of ice cream were handed to them and they stood around eating it like men dreaming. Someone lowered the Stars & Stripes; someone else pulled a blue ensign up at the bow. But no one touched the ship's accomplishment flag on the periscope-a dodo bird rampant on a black field, with eleven little Jap flags sewn on the margin. At the bottom of the flag were the words: "so SOLLY...
Sturdy, well armed, and round-bottomed to wallow over the waves rather than cut through them, the Angry is a queer duck to be flying a U.S. ensign. Her 206-ft. length is shorter than a destroyer's, longer than most cutters'. In the Royal Navy, for which she was built in 1940, she was classed as a corvette. When Britain gave the ship and five others like her to the U.S. last March, the U.S. Navy quickly changed her name and classed her with gunboats, since the U.S. has no corvette class...
...after gun crew was blown off the deck by the explosion, but somehow Ensign Willett stayed at his gun. He fired his five remaining shells, watched the long, yellow flames licking the raider from stem to stern. Then he dragged himself to his boat station. He was not seen again...
Distinguished Flying Cross (airmen only). Army, 345; Navy, 377; Marines, 34. Sample case: Ensign Harry Bonaparte Gibbs. As a combat pilot, in two successive days' fighting in the Coral Sea Battle, he shot down a Jap plane and helped sink or damage a Jap carrier...