Howard W. Gilmore
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Howard Walter Gilmore was a submarine commander in the United States Navy who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his self-sacrifice during World War II.
Howard Walter Gilmore
USS Growler (SS-215) at Brisbane, Australia for repairs to her bow after she rammed a Japanese patrol vessel in the Bismarck Islands on 7 February 1943.
Rear Admiral Andrew C. Bennett, Commandant, Eighth Naval District, bestows the Medal of Honor upon the widow of Howard W. Gilmore.
C. Wade McClusky
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Rear Admiral Clarence Wade McClusky, Jr., was a United States Navy aviator during World War II and the early Cold War. He played a major part in the Battle of Midway; in the words of Admiral Chester N
Howard W. Gilmore
…34th of a class of 436, Gilmore was commissioned in 1926 and reported to the battleship USS Mississippi (BB-41). His Naval Academy classmates included Wade McClusky, Max Leslie, Lofton Henderson, and Carlton Hutchins. Gilmore underwent submarine training during 1930 and in the years that followed served in various…
McClusky in 1943–1944