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Naval Lieut. Guy P. Bordelon, now 31, spent eleven years waiting for a crack at enemy planes. He got his wings in World War II, but, as he says, "when the war ended, I had seen one Japanese aircraft- one they showed us back in flight-training days." In Korea, enemy aircraft seemed as far away as ever: Bordelon was assigned to a prop-driven F-4U Corsair- no match for a MIG-15-and set about the essential but dull task of attacking Communist supply lines...
Last month at last, Aviator Bordelon got his chance. Nearly every night, singleengine, Russian-made airplanes were sneaking across U.N. lines, dropping small bombs on Seoul and Kimpo airfields. Against these bothersome "Bedcheck Charlies," high-speed jets were helpless: they could not turn tightly enough to draw a bead on ancient trainers and biplanes. The Air Force called for Navy help, and up flew Lieut. Bordelon in his World War II vintage Corsair...
Yankee Ships. For the first time since before the Spanish civil war, a visiting squadron of four U.S. warships (cruisers Columbus and Juneau, destroyers Stribling and Bordelon) steamed into the harbor of El Ferrol, where Francisco Franco was born. While ships of the Spanish Navy fired a salute, the U.S. vessels dropped anchor. High-ranking Spanish officials climbed aboard the flagship Columbus to greet Admiral Richard Conolly, Commander in Chief U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. From then on, until the Americans left five days later, there was a round of receptions, dinners and ceremonies. U.S. sailors poured ashore...
Shoup's was the 123rd Medal of Honor awarded in World War II (Army 67, Navy 29, Marines 26, Coast Guard 1), the third for Tarawa. The others went, posthumously, to two Texans, Lieut. William Deane Hawkins and Staff Sergeant William J. Bordelon...
...Tarawa alone five Marines from San Antonio were killed: Lieut. Alexander Bonnyman Jr., Staff Sergeant William J. Bordelon Jr., Pfcs. Arthur Menger, Gene Seng, Charles Montague. Wounded were Sergeant Sam McAllister, Pfc. George Smith. Cited for heroism: Lieut. John Holmgreen, a schoolmate at Central Catholic High School of Seng, Montague and Bordelon...