Joe McPhail enjoyed flying planes, and he claimed, “I knew my only chance to fly was to go into the service and be on active duty.” He was appointed right into active duty onDec 4, 1941, and the strike at Pearl Harbor took place 3 days later on.
“I didn’t realize we were going to be involved in a war. I don’t know that anybody did,” McPhail claimed. “I knew I had to stay in to get the job done.”
McPhail gained his pilot’s fly October 1942 and ultimately flew 240 fight goals as component of Marine Fighting Squadrons in Japan andKorea He rejected 2 Japanese adversary airplane and made it through an emergency situation water touchdown in the rainy seas off the island coastlines ofJapan
McPhail’s initial release remained in American Samoa, where he mostly carried out patrol goals to situate Japanese ships in thePacific Ocean He was posted in Okinawa, Japan for his 2nd …