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"Dusty" Kleiss

Parents and family of "Dusty" Kleiss, the narrator of "Never Call Me A Hero" (2017) ISBN-13: 978-0062692054Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway Hardcover – May 23, 2017by N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss (Author), Timothy Orr (Author), Laura Orr (Author)On the morning of June 4, 1942, high above the tiny Pacific atoll of Midway, Lt. (j.g.) "Dusty" Kleiss burst out of the clouds and piloted his SBD Dauntless into a near-vertical dive aimed at the heart of Japan’s Imperial Navy, which six months earlier had ruthlessly struck Pearl Harbor.

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Eunice Marie “Jean” Mochon Kleiss

5 Jan 1911 – 25 Oct 2006

San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA

Plot info: Section 42 Site 652

John Kleiss

1859 – 16 Mar 1925

Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA

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John Louis Kleiss

21 Aug 1888 – 19 Aug 1953

Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA

Plot info: O - 107

Lulu D. Dunham Kleiss

17 Mar 1882 – 14 Feb 1929

Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA

Plot info: O - 107

Norman Jack “Dusty” Kleiss

7 Mar 1916 – 22 Apr 2016

San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA

Plot info: Section 42 Site 652

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