Storekeeper First Class Craig was listed as Missing in Action when the USS Oklahoma received multiple torpedo attacks. During this time, it caused the Oklahoma to quickly capsize, leading to the deaths of 429 crew members. At that time, Storekeeper First Class...
Rank and Military Position: Hospital Corpsman (FMF) Third-Class Petty Officer Branch of Service: Navy Deployments, tours, and campaigns: OIF Noble Awards and/or Commendations: Navy Commendation Medal, Good Conduct After serving his second deployment to Iraq, Chris...
Lt. Hamilton “Mac” McWhorter III was the first F6F Hellcat ace of the US Navy. He attended the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech, before entering the Navy’s flight program in August, 1941 and was commissioned at Pensacola in Feb., 1942. He flew...
Navy officer Edouard Izac’s remarkable odyssey began on May 31, 1918, when a German submarine torpedoed his ship, the USS President Lincoln, as it sailed near the coast of France. Most of the crew managed to escape, but Izac was captured and taken aboard the U-boat...
In 1968, Karen Foss was inspired to take a break from her profession as a Senior Recreation Leader for the City of Huntington Beach, California to join the U.S. NAVY. Upon completion of Recruit Training at Bainbridge, MD, Karen was honored at graduation with...
April 1963, Judith Cheryl (Burdett) Goff entered boot camp at the Recruit Training Command (Women), at the U.S. Naval Training Center in Bainbridge, Maryland. Upon graduation she reported to U.S. Naval Air Technical Training, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida for...
