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There Were Heroes By The Hundreds: Attack on the USS Franklin
On the morning of March 19, 1945, John “Jack” Hensel, from Utica, New York, a 20-year-old turret gunner on a TBM Avenger torpedo bomber, went to his torpedo bomber squadron’s ready room to be briefed on his next mission.1 His ship The USS Franklin, an Essex-class carrier, was within one hour’s flying time of nearly…
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