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Chester, Daniel Recovery, Discharge and Postwar Life
To return to the United States, Daniel Chester was once again transported on the HMS Queen Elizabeth, which by this time had been refitted as a hos
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Childers, Lloyd Segment 1
Childers was born in Sherman, California.
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Childers was placed in a basket and hoisted onto the deck of the destroyer that had picked him and his crew up.
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The navy commander leading the Hornet's [Annotator's Note: USS Hornet, CV-8] air group was responsible for the deaths of many airmen beca
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While Childers was a cadet he was asked by Colonel Mangrum if he had received a Purple Heart.
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Childers was then assigned to Ft. Rucker, Alabama. Childers though that Ft. Rucker would be good duty but it wasn't.
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After he retired he played golf. He still lives in California.Childers experienced the big earthquake of 1989.
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Childers got ten days leave and went to visit family down in Los Angeles, California.When they returned to Pearl Harbor in November 1941 the ship w
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15 or 20 minutes later a Chief Petty Officer came and got some men to help him fight the fires aboard the USS Cassin [Annotator's Note: (DD-37
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Childers went to the yeoman and requested a transfer form.
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About a month before the Battle of Midway the skipper decided to assign crews.
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The planes all arrived about the same time.