Harold Whipple

Seaman Second Class

Purple Heart
   

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Hal and Chuck Willand "were the only survivors of the dozen or so men who manned quad 40mm Mount 44 which took a kamikaze hit by a plane carrying a 500-pound bomb. He was blown off his gun into the water, plucked from the sea by shipmate Al Stolz and put aboard a hospital ship." -- Lloyd Boles