LtCd Wade McClusky
Albatrosdv
Admiral McClusky died this past summer. You can likely find information on him
at the Pensacola Naval Aviation Museum.
Tom Cleaver
Albat...@aol.com
William H. Shuey
Thomas:
I am confused here. In my copy of Midway, the Battle that Doomed
Japan I have pasted an Obituary of Admiral C. Wade McClusky, from the
Baltimore Sun, dated July, 1976. Is it possible that the Admiral you are
referring to was Wade Sanford McClusky, a son??
Bill Shuey
William Reece
Clarence Wade McClusky died in 1976. Perhaps this is his son. Aeromaster
are you out there? Markings of his SBD-3 would surely be a good seller. As
to what those markings are I don't know. I'll bet that there are some
photos from Enterprise in the National Archives.
William Reece,
Fly Navy!
Charles S. Jones
William H. Shuey wrote:
Or is it possible that you might be thinking of David McCampbell who passed away last year?
Charles S. Jones
Singleton1
>Aeromaster are you out there? Markings of his SBD-3 would >surely be a good
seller. As to what those markings are I don't >know. I'll bet that there are
some photos from Enterprise in the >National Archives.
Wouldn't the markings on his SBD-3 from the Midway battle be:
6, the large star, then B-1?
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Albatrosdv
The markings on McCluskey's SBD-3 were "GC" 24 inches high, black, standard
Navy lettering, just to the rear of the fuselage national insignia. Stood for
"Group Commander."
I may have gotten the date of his death wrong, but I had the photo in an old
magazine 20 years ago, and have the markings on the A-M SBD-3 I just completed.
6-B-1 would have been Dick Best, skipper of Bombing 6, the guy who got "Akagi"
(or "Kaga", nobody's ever been able to sort that one out real good, and when I
talked to him recently, Best still didn't know. As he said, "it was the result
that counted.") and by that time of the war, it would have been B-1, on
Enterprise aircraft, just ahead of the national insignia, directly beneath the
gunner's cockpit.
Tom Cleaver
Albat...@aol.com
Brenda Miller
Hi fellas,
McClusky, the ENT AGC skipper died in '76. E. Scott
McCuskey the Wildcat driver at Midway passed away this
summer. He is burried at Barrancus Natl Cemetary aboard
Pensacola NAS not far from W. G. "Bill" Esders (also of
Midway fame).
Blue skies,
Owen Miller
William H. Shuey
That probably explains it. Not the first time some writer got McCluskey
and McCuskey mixed. Sad to hear about McCuskey-I just finished
re-reading "The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign". Those who are
our links to this era are dissapearing fast. I have a 2nd cousin who
flew SBD's in the Pacific and when ever I suggest taking some time to
sit down and putting some of his experiences on tape he just snorts and
says "Hell, No one's interested in that kind of stuff". He ought to go
look at the book section at Border's Books.
Bill Shuey