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William Patrick "Willy Irish" Driscoll (born March 5, 1947) is a retired commander in the United States Navy and a flying ace.Driscoll, a Naval Flight Officer, and aircrewmate Duke Cunningham, a Naval Aviator, were their service's only aces of the Vietnam War. They remain the Navy's most recently minted aces. Driscoll received the service's second-highest decoration, the Navy Cross, for his ...
LAWRENCE - William P. Lockhart, 58, of Lawrence, passed away on August 15, 2020. Services will be privately held and he will be buried in his families plot in Immaculate Conception Cemetery in Lawrence. Arrangements by Driscoll Funeral Home, 309 S. Main Street, Haverhill. For guestbook, visit www.driscollcares.com.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran William P. Driscoll, who received a Navy Cross and two Silver Stars during Vietnam.
12 de sept. de 2018 · In 1972 at the Pentagon, then-Secretary of the Navy John W. Warner met with Lt. Randall H. Cunningham, Lt. j.g. William P. Driscoll and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Elmo Zumwalt.
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal. This page was last edited on 14 September 2023, at 04:49. All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
9 de abr. de 2018 · On March 29, 2018 Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, Florida was honored to host retired ace Cmdr. William Driscoll at the National Naval Aviation Museum.
"Showtime 100", the VF-96 F-4J flown for three "kills" by Cunningham and Driscoll VF-96 embarked aboard USS Constellation for a deployment to Vietnam from 1 October 1971 to 1 July 1972. During this deployment, on 10 May, Lieutenant Duke Cunningham and Lieutenant j.g. William P. Driscoll of VF-96 scored their aerial victories becoming the only US Navy aces of the war.
