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Photo #: 80-G-357094 (Complete caption)

Marine Fighting Squadron 221 (VMF-221) Pilots

Posed in front of a camouflaged building at Ewa Mooring Mast Field, Oahu, 14 July 1942. Most are survivors of Battle of Midway air action.
They are (Seated in front, left to right):
Second Lieutenant William V. Brooks;
Second Lieutenant John C. Musselman, Jr.,
Captain Phillip R. White;
Captain William C. Humberd;
Captain Kirk Armistead;
Captain Herbert T. Merrill;
Captain Marion E. Carl and
Second Lieutenant Clayton M. Canfield.
Those standing in back include (with one unidentified):
Second Lieutenant Darrell D. Irwin;
Second Lieutenant Hyde Phillips;
Second Lieutenant Roy A. Corry, Jr. and
Second Lieutenant Charles M. Kunz.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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16 March 1999