This famous Scots-American pilot of VF-15, and later test pilot, Korea veteran and Admiral had enormous experience in WW2. In early 1943 he tells in an interview he briefly flew in PBY-5A in the Guadalcanal campaign artillery spotting for the assault in Munda (he was probably aircrew rather than captain of the flying boat). He is detached from the USS Louisville (where he is an SOC pilot). I believe the PBY-5A squadrons on Guadalcanal flying from Henderson Field were VP-12 and then (from March 1943) VP-54. I assume VP-12 would be the unit he flew with based on the facts that he developed Malaria in this service and that the USS Louisville left the area by April 1943.
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Keith