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Clarence Dickinson | |
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| File:Lieutenant Clarence E.Dickinson.jpg | |
| Born | 1 December 1912 |
| Died | 4 October 1984 (aged 71) |
| Rank | rear admiral |
Clarence Earle Dickinson, Jr. (1912-1984) was a navy pilot from EUA in WWII. He participated in the Battle of Midway in June 1942.
Biography[edit]
Clarence Dickinson graduated from the Annapolis Naval Academy in 1934. On the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor, his unit was the Sixth Bombardment Squadron VS6. SBD. He was at sea with the USS Enterprise. Sent to Hawaii on the day of the attack on a reconnaissance mission, his plane was attacked by embarked Japanese fighters, who shot him down, killing his tail gunner, Willian Cicero Miller. However, he managed to parachute and land on the ground.
Later, Dickinson participated in the bombing raid on the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and the Battle of Midway (4–6 June 1942) as second in command of the Sixth Bombardment Squadron SBD Dauntless, then commanded by Lieutenant Richard Best . Your Squadron was helping the sixth torpedo squadron of Leutenant-commander Eugene Lindsey called "Devastator".
In attacking the Japanese fleet, Dickinson and 4 dive bombers from his squadron attacked the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga , with he having achieved the third of four attacks with a 500 kg dive-bomb that had disable the Japanese aircraft carrier.[1]
After the attack, he was shot down by Japanese fighters, managed to crash and survive with his gunner, was rescued and returned to duty.
At the end of the war, he was the only soldier to receive three Navy Crosses and ended his military career with the rank of rear admiral (rank equivalent to vice admiral).[2]
He died on October 4, 1984 and is buried in Honolulu (Hawaii), at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, near Pearl Harbor.
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