page_title: Don T. Griswold
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Don T. Griswold / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Don visits home, Clarinda, Iowa
context_page_description: Ensign Don T. Griswold, Jr., was a United States Naval Aviator, who was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions during the Battle of Midway.
context_section_description: Born in Bryan, Texas, he attended Iowa State and after graduation joined the Naval Aviation Corps. During the Battle of Midway, 6 June 1942, his Douglas SBD-3 "Dauntless" scout-bomber scored a hit on a Japanese ship but was hit by antiaircraft fire and plunged into the sea.  Griswold's radioman-gunner, Kenneth Cecil Bunch, also died.
  Ensign Griswold was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
caption: Don visits home, Clarinda, Iowa
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