Wilmington's WWII Heroes-- Part 4: Solomons, Snipers, Submarines, Pt Boats and Battleships

Wilmington, North Carolina.

In the Solomons, Sgt, L.B. HARPER, 1st Battalion, 2ns Marines, 2nd Marine Division,  noted:  "I picked off six (enemy snipers) myself."

Commander RICHARD ANDREWS, Pacific submarine skipper, sank 3,000 tons of Japanese shipping.

Lieutenant ALEX FONVIELLE, JR.  commanded patrol torpedo boats at Guadalcanal, Vela Gulf, Choiseul,  Empress Augusta Bay and Bougainville.

Lt. (jg) LLOYD MOORE, commanded a landing craft, tank (LCT) in the Aleutians and Gilberts Islands.

As tactical commander of three Southwest Pacific patrol-torpedo boats, Lt (jg) ROBERT WATERS aggressively attacked Japanese3 vessels.

Navy Flight  Surgeon WORTH SPRUNT served 25 months with carrier units.

Doctor Lieutenant  Commander CHARLES GRAHAM served on the battleship USS Indiana in combat against Truk, Saipan, Iwo Jima and the Philippines.

Lieutenant JOHN SCHILLER served in action with three ship types:  destroyer USS Gwen, battleship USS North Carolina and carrier USS Midway.

Lieutenant (jg) BILL SCHWARTZserved on the destroyer escort USS Oberrenber at New Guinea, Lingayen Gulf, Surigao  Strait and Okinawa.

Yeoman THOMAS JAMES survived the Japanese attack on Dutch Harbor, Alaska Navy Base, June 1942.

--GreGen