Lieut. JG. Robert Moore USN, WWII
(This Bio is a work in progress)

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Born May 9, 1924 in Churubusco, Indiana

Entry into Active Service - January 5, 1943

Graduated from Corpus Christi, TX - July 1944

Avenger Pilot - trained at US Naval Air Station Ft. Lauderdale beginning August 1944, completed training in October 1944
while at this base he trained with Torpedo Squadron 100 - November 1944

April 1945 - USS Windham Bay

Okinawa Gunto Operation, April 29 to 1 June 1945

Served aboard the USS Makin Island 

Torpedo Squadron 99 - VT-99, May 1945 (possibly with Paul Newman) 

Assigned to Squadron 91 - September 1945

USS Salamaua

Torpedo Squadron 7 - April 1946

August 1946 - Injured at a hospital in Pearl Harbor (T.H.)

Navy Unit Commendation award

Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal

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