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CHIEF OF- STAFF CAFTAIN JAMES G. DANIELS Captain James G. Daniels, III, son of the late Senator J. M. Daniels of New Mexico, began his naval career in May 1938 in Kansas City, Missouri. Ordered to Pensacola, Florida, as a Naval Aviation Cadet, he received his com- mission and wings in September 1939. His first fleet duty was as a fighter pilot attached to Fighting Squadron SIX aboard the USS ENTERPRISE: While in Honolulu, he met his wife-to-be, Helen Elizabeth Arnold, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. F. T. Arnold, U. S. Army. They were married August 1940. On December 7, 1941, he was in the air at Pearl Harbor. As one of the six ENTERPRISE fighter aircraft involved in the searching for the enemy in the late afternoon and evening and after having been ordered to proceed from the carrier to Pearl Harbor, they were mistakenly fired upon when landing at Ford Island. Captain Daniels was the only fighter pilot to successfully land and one of the two pilots to survive the flight. During World War II he served aboard the carrier ENTERPRIZE in VF-6 and as Landing Signal Officer (LSO) for Carrier Air Group TEN: as Staff LSO for Commander, Fleet Air Wing West Coast, and later became Com- manding Officer of Fighter Bomber Squadron TWO, aboard the USS SHANGRI- LA in 1945. From November 1951 until May 1953 Captain Daniels served aboard the USS ESSEX, during her second Korean cruise, as Air Group Com- mander of Air Task Group TWO, and later as Executive Officer of ESSEX in 1956. His other past duties include Operations Officer of the Naval Air Facilitv, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1949; and Commanding Officer of the fleet oiler USS NAVASOTA, and has also served as the Commanding Officer of the USS TICONDEROGA. He reported to Commander carrier Division FIVE as Chief of Stafltin August, 1963. Captain Daniels ' combat decorations include the Legion of Merit with the Combat V, the Distinguished Flying Cross, Five Air Medals, Com- mendation Ribbon with Combat V and various other theater and campaign medals.
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