{"id":4593,"date":"2026-01-04T00:35:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/griffin-w-e-b-honor-01-honor-bound-griffin-w-e-b\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:35:03","slug":"griffin-w-e-b-honor-01-honor-bound-griffin-w-e-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/griffin-w-e-b-honor-01-honor-bound-griffin-w-e-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin, W.E.B. – Honor 01 – Honor Bound – Griffin, W. E. B."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guadalcanal. Solomon Islands <\/p>\n

Three Grumman F4F Wildcats approached Henderson Field from the west in a shallow descent from 15,000 feet. <\/p>\n

These three single-engine fighters represented one hundred per-cent of the aircraft available to Marine Fighter Squadron VMF-221-which put them at thirteen planes short of the sixteen they were authorized. The Cactus Air Force, and ultimately the United States Marine Corps, obviously had to do something. <\/p>\n

The remaining pilots of VMF-221 had heard two fairly credible rumors about what they would do. <\/p>\n

According to the most pleasant rumor, any day now they would return to Henderson and find the taxiways and sandbag revetments crowded with sixteen glistening, new, well-maintained Wildcats of a Marine fighter squadron flown in from an aircraft carrier to replace VMF-221. <\/p>\n

To those who desperately wished to believe this rumor, it didn’t make much sense to send replacement aircraft and pilots to a squadron that had already suffered a loss of two hundred twenty percent of its original aircraft and seventy percent of its original complement of pilots. The only sensible solution was to bring in a fresh squadron. <\/p>\n

The other theory attempted to account for the reason why VMF-221 had neither received enough aircraft and pilots to re-place operational losses, nor had been relieved and replaced by a fresh Marine Fighter Squadron. According to this <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Book Preview Guadalcanal. Solomon Islands Three Grumman F4F Wildcats approached Henderson Field from the west in a shallow descent from 15,000 feet. These three single-engine fighters represented one hundred per-cent of the aircraft available to Marine Fighter Squadron VMF-221-which put them at thirteen planes short of the sixteen they were authorized. The Cactus Air Force, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-4593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-w-e-b-griffin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}