Below deck, in front of a row of lockers beneath the No. 3 gun turret, Lonnie Cook felt a rumbling and froze. He had been getting ready for a day in Honolulu, had just showered and put on his shorts and T-shirt, shoving his wallet with the $60 hed won in a craps game the night before in his poc
Lonnie Cook, who had won a craps game the night before, slept in the airmens bunks that night, wearing clothes dug up from around officers quarters. In the middle of the night, a commotion woke him. It was the airmen, returning after searching for the Japanese fleet. They had found nothing.
etrick in Las Vegas; Lauren Bruner in La Mirada, Calif.; Joe Langdell in Yuba City, Calif.; Louis Conter in Grass Valley, Calif., Donald Stratton in Colorado Springs, Colo.; Ken Potts in Provo, Utah; John Anderson in Roswell, N.M.; Lonnie Cook in Morris, Okla.; and Raymond Haerry in West Warwick, R.I.
