SSgt William Edward Embree, U S Marine Corps. Served in the Pacific during WW II. He served as an air crewman machine gunner assigned to VMB-611 at Moret Field, Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philippines while up in Cabanatuan, Luzon, Philippines where his father suffered as a POW of the Japanese.
Son of Joseph Embree and Violet La Rue Embree, husband of Margaret M. Callery Embree.
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VMB-611 was commissioned at MCAS Cherry Point on 1. October 1943. After completing training, the squadron transferred to the West Coast and the air echelon sailed from San Diego for MCAS Ewa, Territory of Hawaii on 24. August 1944 with the PBJs tied down on the deck of the escort aircraft carrier CVE-61 USS Manila Bay, the ground echelon sailed for Hawaii on 23 September. While at NAS Barbers Point, Territory of Hawaii, the squadron's PBJs were equipped with underwing zero-length high velocity aircraft rocket (HVAR) launchers and Long Range Navigation (LORAN) equipment. In October, the air echelon flew from Hawaii to MCAF Emirau; both air and ground echelons had arrived by December 1944. VMB-611 flew its first mission on 17. November 1944, a night mission against Kavieg and for the next three months, the squadron flew night heckling missions and strikes against Vanakanau and Tobera on New Britain Island. On 17. March 1945, the ground echelon transferred to Moret Field, Zamboanga on Mindanao Island in the Philippine Islands where it was joined by the air echelon on 30. March 1945. The squadron flew day and night combat missions in the southern Philippines until the end of the war.
SSgt William Edward Embree, U S Marine Corps. Served in the Pacific during WW II. He served as an air crewman machine gunner assigned to VMB-611 at Moret Field, Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philippines while up in Cabanatuan, Luzon, Philippines where his father suffered as a POW of the Japanese.
Son of Joseph Embree and Violet La Rue Embree, husband of Margaret M. Callery Embree.
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VMB-611 was commissioned at MCAS Cherry Point on 1. October 1943. After completing training, the squadron transferred to the West Coast and the air echelon sailed from San Diego for MCAS Ewa, Territory of Hawaii on 24. August 1944 with the PBJs tied down on the deck of the escort aircraft carrier CVE-61 USS Manila Bay, the ground echelon sailed for Hawaii on 23 September. While at NAS Barbers Point, Territory of Hawaii, the squadron's PBJs were equipped with underwing zero-length high velocity aircraft rocket (HVAR) launchers and Long Range Navigation (LORAN) equipment. In October, the air echelon flew from Hawaii to MCAF Emirau; both air and ground echelons had arrived by December 1944. VMB-611 flew its first mission on 17. November 1944, a night mission against Kavieg and for the next three months, the squadron flew night heckling missions and strikes against Vanakanau and Tobera on New Britain Island. On 17. March 1945, the ground echelon transferred to Moret Field, Zamboanga on Mindanao Island in the Philippine Islands where it was joined by the air echelon on 30. March 1945. The squadron flew day and night combat missions in the southern Philippines until the end of the war.
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