Scrimmage for War Pictures
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Chapter 18
1932 Proebstel Grade School championship baseball team. Betty McKenna, who coached the team and taught ten-year old Clarence Walden how to pitch, is on the left. Pitcher 'Pee Wee' Walden is standing in the front row, second from the right. CWC |
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Navy PT-17-Kaydet, the Navy training aircraft Clarence Walden flew in primary pilot training, Naval Air Station Pasco, Washington. USN |
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His brother, Edwin Walden, and 2nd Lt. Clarence Walden in 1943. Edwin was working in the Kaiser Shipyards near Ryan Point in Vancouver, Washington, when this photograph was taken. CWC |
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Clarence Walden and friends, Viola Smith and Earl Miller, 1943. Earl Miller was his high school and Willamette University baseball team catcher. CWC |
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2nd Lt. Clarence Walden, 2nd Lt. Elroy Cronin, and 2nd Lt. Herman Ubbins, in VMD-254 on Guadalcanal, 1944. Herman was the navigator on Clarence Walden's crew, and Elroy was an engineering (maintenance) supervisor on the squadron's aircraft. CWC |
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Map 1. The x's and names in red mark the location of Japanese ships sunk during Operation Hailstone, the 16-17 February 1944 Pacific Fleet's Task Force 58 attack on Truk Atoll. WOL |
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1st Lt. Clarence Walden was transitioning into F6F Hellcats when World War II ended. His flying in the state of the art Navy fighter, earned from his wife, his nickname, 'Buzz.' Aircraft photograph taken in May 1943. USN |
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Map 2, The Solomon Islands, Spring 1943. Note the position of Guadalcanal, southeast of 'The Slot,' where numerous fierce naval battles between the US Navy and Japanese Empire forces occurred in the fall of 1942, and how much further southeast it is from Bougainville and the heavily fortified Japanese bases at Rabaul, New Britain, and Kavieng, New Ireland. USMC |
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The SS Japara left San Diego on 4 July 1943, transporting VMTB-232 to the island of Espiritu Santo and Turtle Bay Airfield where the squadron remained in training briefly before moving northwest to Munda Airstrip, on the island of New Georgia. FvE |
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Map 3, Munda Airstrip |
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TBF Avenger dropping a torpedo, USN, |
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Map 4, Cartwheel Area of Operations, 1943. WOL |
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Japanese warships attempt to get underway while being |
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The Japanese heavy cruiser Chikuma, a Pearl Harbor veteran, photographed from a USS Saratoga (CV-3) Douglas Dauntless Dive Bomber gun camera, during raid on Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, 5 November 1943. NA |
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USS Pastores (AF-16) returned Technical Sergeant James M. Fitzgerald to the United States, departing from Espiritu Santo, arriving in San Deigo on 28 August 1944. USN |
Chapter 19
Map showing progress of the campaign to recapture |
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3rd Marine Division men and tanks |
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No time to dig in for this 105 Howitzer. 3rd Division Marines had run into resistance and artillerymen needed to set up guns quickly to render support, so crews set up guns and in a few minutes began pouring rounds into the Japanese ranks. USMC |
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Once again after more than two years the Marines raise the American Flag over the Marine barracks on the island of Guam. The same Marines seen in this picture took part in the recapture just hours before this picture was taken. USMC |
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Map of Ulithi Atoll. WOL |
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B-29 crash-landed on Iwo Jima, |
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#1 Airfield on Iwo Jima. USAAF |
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Irving E. Miller, left end of front row |
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322nd Bombardment Squadron (H) |
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Memphis Belle and her crew, 324th Bombardment Squadron (H), 91st Group, shown at Bassingbourn, England after completing their 25th mission on 17 May 1943. L-R in the photograph, Harold P. Loch (Engineer/Top Turret Gunner), Cecil H. Scott, Robert Hanson (Radio Operator), James Verinis (Copilot), Robert K. Morgan (Pilot), Charles B. Leighton (Navigator), John P. Quinlan (Tail Gunner), Casimer A. 'Tony' Nastal (Right Waist Gunner), Vincent Evans (Bombardier), Clarence E. 'Bill' Winchell (Left Waist Gunner). USAAF |
Chapter 20
Charles S. Furno, far left, second row; Kenneth W. Jacobson, back row, sixth from left, 4th Grade, Central School, Vancouver, Washington, April 1931. KJC |
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Swivel-hipped Chuck Furno trapped in a 1941 home football |
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AT-6C Texans in flight, 1943. USAAF |
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Photograph of a P-39N being started by a hand crank at |
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67th Fighter Squadron insignia. USAAF |
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Charles Furno in the cockpit of his P-38L at Puerta Princesa |
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Chuck Furno beside P-38 'Lady Louise.' If comedian Bob Hope saw this photograph while touring the Pacific islands, he would say, ''Lady Louise' shows you boys what we are fighting for!' Photograph courtesy of Charles S. Furno. CFC |
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Map, Borneo Campaign, |
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While playing baseball with the Army Air Force Team he was able to travel more, as this photograph of him on the recaptured bastion of Corregidor illustrates. JLC |
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The 70th Fighter Squadron Insignia. He returned to Maret Field at Zamboanga City and joined the 70th Fighter Squadron White Knights on 21 August 1945. USAAF |
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Chuck Furno sitting with friends at the Maret Field Officers' Club, at Zamboanga City. Notice the 70th Fighter Squadron insignia on his flight jacket. JLC |
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Chuck Furno in action against the College of Idaho during the 1946 football season. Veteran 1941 teammates included, Ken Jacobson, Marv Goodman, Bill Reder, Paul Cookingham and Pat White. 1947 Wallulah. MOHLAWU |
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Ken Jacobson, behind Ted Ogdahl, looks over the shoulder of Coach 'Spec' Keene at play diagraming by his coach during the 1942 Bearcat season, when they won another conference championship. MOHLAWU |
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Drawing of Army Stearman PT-17 Kaydet. FOL |
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Photograph of Army PT-17 Kaydet N4767V, in flight, |
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The Army Air Force's Vultee-built BT-13 Trainer, |
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Scott Army Air Field during World War II, from a |
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Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, a chain of 21 islands 221 miles |
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A remodeled Dallas High School at |
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Dallas Retirement Village, Oregon, |