At 16:38 21 August 2009, Free Flight 107 wrote:
Few people know that in WW2 Vern was on the submarine that snuck into
not one but two enemy harbors in Japan and I believe Guam to spy on
the Japanese fleet. Upon leaving the harbor, they shoot a torpedo at a
Japanese ship and sank it in the harbor, there were truly "Daring
Young Men"

I flew as part of a team at the 1-26 Championship in 2002 that was hosted
by the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs. One afternoon after the
flying was over, I noticed a group of cadets clustered around Vern, who
was telling the tales of his wartime service in submarines. Those young
military cadets were hanging on his every word.

Jim Beckman