Vince68 Loc: Wappingers Falls, NY

This was on the YouTube channel "TJ3 History" this past Veterans Day Friday, 11/11/22. Some of you may have seen This before, but I just happened upon it today and thought what a fantastic story this was and wanted to share the story of a young Richard Miralles (Dick was 17 when he enlisted in the Navy). Dick was serving as a SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber radioman/gunner, and he is also the last surviving member of Air Group 11 that served in the Pacific during WWII. After the carrier USS Hornet CV-8 was sunk on 26 October 1942, Air Group 11 ended up being stationed at Henderson Field on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

The video is 33 minutes long, but is a well worth watching to the very end. It uses a WWII flight sim and actual entries that Dick made into his logbook, weaving back and forth between the flight sim recreations and old photos of Dick and his pilot, as he gets ready to relive his time in the back seat of the Dauntless with a final ride in a SBD Dauntless at 98 years of age. There is also a documentary movie that was made about Air Group 11 called "11 The Movie", and through research for this documentary, that is how it was found that Dick Miralles was the lone survivor.

So it does not get moved to the Links section, I will post the link to the video in a reply to this post. Hopefully, it will be left in the "Chit-Chat" section so more people will get to see it.

Vince68 Loc: Wappingers Falls, NY

Here is the link to the video mentioned above. The second link is the documentary "11 The Movie".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTBIn7yi2co&ab_channel=TJ3History

The link to the documentary about Air Group 11.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfMhcK9gcqM&t=0s&ab_channel=GeorgeRetelas

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

I think it's only in the General Photography section that posts with links get sent to the Links section, which is for links to photography resources. People post links in Chit Chat all the time without being moved.