The lance corporal sold 22 guns in four transactions with undercover agents for a total of $23,000.
The opening of the North Carolina airfield follows the service’s June recertification of an airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu.
Though he was peppered by shrapnel and severely burned after a kamikaze pilot slammed into his ship, Lt. Richard McCool Jr. went to work.
Shot and clinging to the boat's bridge frame, submarine commander Howard W. Gilmore's gave his final order.
By Jon Guttman
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