Word: kirn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Casually the U.S. Navy announced last week that, in five weeks of operations based on Guadalcanal, a single Navy dive-bomber squadron had attacked 04 ships, had sunk or damaged 18. By this record the squadron, under Lieut. Commander Louis J. ("Bullet Lou") Kirn, became easily the most experienced dive-bombing squadron in the Navy. The squadron's story...
...eleven of Kirn's SBDs took off in unusually bad weather for a dawn attack on the Jap seaplane base at Rekata Bay. Weymouth and Mildahn, with four other pilots, reached their target and gave the Japs a nasty surprise. From Henderson Field at dawn, four more SBDs took off on search flights, Weary leading one section, Purdum the other. They sighted five destroyers just out of range for dive-bombing attack. Other pilots took off for antisub patrol off Tulagi, to smoke out Jap land positions on northwest Guadal, to search for some lost pilots...
After the usual Japanese raid at midday (known as Tojo Time) six more SBDs set out to look for the Tokyo Express (enemy warships coming down from Bougainville for night landing operations). Just before 4 p.m. they sighted six destroyers in parallel columns. Lou Kirn led nine' SBDs out to intercept them. Kirn, Weary and Frank got hits; one destroyer was seen to sink, another was left floundering. Forty minutes later Purdum and Russell led six more SBDs out and finished off a third destroyer. But the three remaining destroyers came on, so from time to time during...
Kessel, M. J.; Killam, W. H. Kirn, G. J.; Kolls, A. C.; Kuder, J. M., II; Kuhlman...
...Kirn, George John...