Jim Starnes read an article about Hiroshima and Vankirk and saw that they lived in the same town, Stone Mountain, Georgia, as a matter of fact, just down the street from him. "We figured it's a real coincidence" two navigators of historical events to have ended up in the same place, same time."
Furthermore, both were born in February 1921, both signed up in the military before Pearl Harbor, both saw lots of action during the war, both taught navigation in the States and had successful careers and retired in 1986 as well as raising large families.
Starnes, an Atlanta native, attended Emory University before enlisting in the Navy. He served on the light cruiser USS Boise which was badly damaged at Guadalcanal in October 1942 with 300 killed and wounded.
More to Come. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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