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Ireland, John Bushell

Rank and Name, Water Tender Third Class John Bushell Ireland.

Unit/Placed in, USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) Carrier, United States Nava Reserve.

 

John is born on 31 July 1923 in Okeechobee, Florida.

Father, Paul Frederick Ireland.

Mother, Viviebnne B. (Bushell) Ireland.

Sister(s), Ruth Etelynn Ireland.

Brother(s), Paul, James Caleb, Joe, David and Robert George Ireland.

Spouse, Imogene (Neuhauser) Ireland.

Son, John Arthur Ireland.

 

John enlisted the service in Illinois with service number # 8542167.

 

John was KIA when supporting the Okinawa invasion, the USS Bunker Hill was Struck by 2 Kamikazes and severely Damaged on 11 May 1945, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Good Combat Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

 

John is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.

Courts of the missing.

 

Thanks to, http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/17.htm

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Buried on Sea
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17 ) Carrier (Kamikaze Surviuvor)
Flightdeck hit by the first Kamikaze
Flightdeck damage
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) afire after being hit by two kamikaze suicide planes. Photographed from USS Bataan (CVL-29). On the morning of May 11, 1945, while supporting the Okinawa invasion, Bunker Hill was hit and severely damaged by two suicide planes. Gasoline fires flamed up around fueled and armed planes and several explosions took place. One of the two suicide pilots was Imperial Japanese Navy Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa (1922-1945) of the Dai-nana Showa-tai Squadron flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero-Sen (Allied code name "Zeke") fighter with a 550-pound (249-kilogram) bomb. the Japanese Navy carried out a massive kamikaze mission called Kikusui Rokugi Sakusen (Operation Kikusui "Floating Chrysanthemums" No. 6). He and his unknown wingman surprised both the Combat Air Patrol and the ship's gunners. His wingman's bomb punctured the flight deck and went on through, and exploded over the water before his plane crashed into the 34 aircraft waiting to take off. Ogawa struck next, dropping his bomb and impacting the flight deck near the island. Task Force 58 Commander Admiral Marc Mitscher narrowly escaped death on the bridge and had to transfer his flag to USS Enterprise (CV-6). Almost all the pilots of Composite Air Group 84 were killed, in the Ready Room or on the flight deck. 346 Americans were killed, 43 were missing, and 264 were wounded. The kamikaze plane was untouched by the fire; US Navy diver Robert Schock recovered photos and letters from the dead pilot's aircraft. These artifacts were returned to Ogawa's family in 2001 by Schock's grandson and Mickie Grace, a Japanese-American translator. In his last letter, Ogawa wrote to his parents: "I will make a sortie, flying over those calm clouds in a peaceful emotion. I can think about neither life nor death. A man should die once, and no day is more honorable than today to dedicate myself for the eternal cause. I will go to the front smiling. On the day of the sortie too, and forever."
Wounded lift
His rank Water Tender Third Class
Mitsubishi A6M Zero (Kamikazes)
Patch Bunker Hill
Damage

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