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Home Town Seagrove, NC
Last Address Chesterfield, MO
Date of Passing Mar 20, 2006
Location of Interment Whynot Cemetery - Seagrove, North Carolina
WWII Naval Hero, Capt Forrester C. Auman deceased at age 87 Capt. Auman had a distinguished military career as a naval aviator. During the WWII Battle of Midway his plane ran out of fuel and had to be ditched but he was later picked up by a PT boat. As a dive bomber following a skirmish with a Japanese fighter which left him with a bloody head from five pieces of shrapnel he was credited with a direct hit on the Japanese carrier Shokaku which had taken part in the attack on Pearl Harbor. When he tried to return to his ship the aircraft carrier Hornet, he discovered it had been sunk so he was forced to land aboard the carrier Enterprise. His plane was so shot up that it was pushed over the side. Although entitled to a Purple Heart, the line was so long that he chose to go to bed instead. For his performance that day he was awarded the Silver Star --for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity as pilot of a Scout Bomber of the U.S.S. Hornet Air Group during action again enemy Japanese forces near Santa Cruz Island October 26, 1942.