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Recovery Seligman native Wilbur Mitts and fellow airmen Jay Manown and Anthony Di Petta were killed when their single-engine torpedo bomber was shot down while participating in Operation Forager, the
One of Diana Ward’s strongest memories from her childhood in Seaside is taking flowers to the ocean with her grandmother, somewhere between Lovers Point and Asilomar, she thinks, to be
It was those U.S. Navy airmen who won that the penultimate fleet engagement in world history.
Military History On May 5, 1944, the massive USS Colorado battleship left San Francisco for Pearl Harbor as part of Operation Forager, the Allied bid to seize the Central Pacific from the hands of the Imperial Japanese forces. During an extremely violent encounter in Tinian, gunner Robert E.