Bill White – Intrepid History
Bill White on the history of the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum.
Full StoryIntrepid and the Hangar Deck
Retired Intrepid President Bill White on the Intrepid Museum Exhibits.
Full StoryOperation Mend and the Importance Of Donations
The importance of working with organizations that help to heal wounded service men and women should be considered when looking to donate money to organizations. The presence of such groups as the Operation Mend organization should be considered. Operation Mend works with some of the best surgeons in the country to help wounded soldiers that [...]
Full StoryWays to Support the Intrepid Museum
When it comes to donating to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, you can do more than just donate money and time. The museum takes in a collection of artifacts each year to help document the history of the U.S. and maintain it’ place as a leading educational museum. The artifacts that can be [...]
Full StoryIntrepid Author, Bill White and Constellations Group – Operation Mend Fundraiser
Retired Intrepid President, Bill White and Constellations Group garnered the support of Ryan Friedlinghaus, founder and CEO of West Coast Customs who in turn built the dream team. General Motors; Dana Mecum, president of the Mecum Auction Company; and others to combine forces to offer the one-of-a-kind convertible to raise funds for Operation Mend.
Full StoryAbout Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund
The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund is part of the Intrepid Family of Foundations. Men and women in the US Armed Forces and their families are supported primarily by the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund. The Intrepid Museum Foundation had founded this Fund in 2000, and it gained status as an independent not-for-profit organization in 2003. The [...]
Full StoryIntrepid Hellcat Wingmen
An excerpt from Intrepid: The Epic Story of America’s Most Legendary Warship, co-authored by retired Intrepid Museum President, Bill White. Cece Harris could see the hangars below on the Shinchiku air field. Leading the flight of four Hellcats, he rolled into a sixty-degree dive. As the target swelled in the reticles of his windshield-mounted gun [...]
Full StoryIntrepid Fighter Pilot Encounters Betty Bombers
Lt. (jg) Charlie Mallory, a week short of his twenty-fourth birthday, had a dilemma. He was a fighter pilot—and a damned good one, in his opinion. He’d already gotten shared credit for shooting down a Zero over Negros in his first air-to-air fight. But he was also a photo pilot, one of a few in [...]
Full StoryCo-Author Bill White, Intrepid Ordered Back to Peleliu
Meanwhile in the Palaus, the amphibious assault on Peleliu was being assembled. Not everyone, including Adm. Bull Halsey, thought it was necessary. Halsey was the overall commander of the Western Pacific Task Force under whom Intrepid and Task Group 38.2 were operating. He was surprised at how little aerial resistance the pilots from Intrepid and [...]
Full StoryBill White – July 27, 1944: Intrepid Receives a Visit
Intrepid spent the next several days in Hawaiian waters exercising her new air group. El Gropo led his young aviators in simulated attacks, making dozens of practice launches and recoveries back aboard the carrier. By late July, Captain Bolger could report to his superiors that Intrepid and her air group were ready to go to [...]
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