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Photo # USMC 412883: Captain Floyd B. Parks, USMC, at San Diego, California, 23 March 1942.

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Major Floyd Bruce Parks, USMC, (1911-1942)

Floyd B. Parks was born in Salisbury, Missouri, on 16 January 1911. He became a Marine Corps officer after graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1934 and later became a Naval aviator. He commanded Marine Fighting Squadron 221 during the Battle of Midway. On 4 June 1942, Major Parks was killed in action leading his squadron against overwhelming numbers of qualitatively superior enemy fighter planes during the Japanese Air Attack on Midway.

USS Floyd B. Parks (DD-884) was named in his honor.

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Photo #: USMC 412883

Captain Floyd B. Parks, USMC


At San Diego, California, 23 March 1942.
He commanded Marine Fighting Squadron 221 (VMF-221) at Midway in May & June 1942, and was killed in action defending the base from Japanese air attack on 4 June 1942.

U.S. Marine Corps Photograph.

Online Image: 49KB; 600 x 675 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo Number 127-G-412883.

 


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