All of these aviators were graduates of New Hanover High School. (Wilbur Jones' wife Carol's father served on the cruiser USS Astoria at the battle which became the flagship of the fleet after the sinking of the USS Yorktown on June 7th.)
At about 10 a.m., three waves of torpedo planes from the carriers Yorktown, Hornet and Enterprise were obliterated by the Japanese. Right after that, Dickinson's and Peiffer's group attacked the Kaga. Dickinson used the rising sun painted on the carrier's deck as his target and scored a direct hit.
He ran out of fuel on the way back and was forced to ditch into the sea and was rescued by a destroyer.
--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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