Five weeks after taking his wedding vows, Navy pilot Loren Isley was at war with Japan — a 21-year-old Missourian on March 18, 1945 — making what would be his final mission off the vast USS Intrepid ...
JACKSON - After all the grim economic news out of Wall Street, there was at least one cheerful story last week: following a two- year facelift, the tough old aircraft carrier Intrepid came back to its ...