Скачать или смотреть NVHA – YN Billy Dennard – Navy –USS Franklin - WW II – 04-0020

@NVHArchive – Yeoman Billy Dennard was a pharmacist in Rising Star, Texas. He paid for his education through the G.I. Bill which he nearly earned with his life. Billy was in the mess hall of USS Franklin CV-13 when a Japanese plane dropped a bomb that went through the flight deck and exploded in the hanger deck. That led to a massive series of explosions that almost sunk Franklin. Billy was trapped in the mess hall and almost suffocated before MOH recipient, Donald Gary, found them and led Billy’s group to relative safety. We’ve interviewed Marines on their way to Okinawa who passed the wrecked Franklin in transit. Some were pretty chocked up when they saw what those sailors had endured. Billy Dennard was one of those gracious and good men to whom we owe so much.