Lou in his dress blues, around 1940
Lou standing tall and proud in his dress blues, around 1943.



The crash Lou miraculously survived
Pieces of Lou's Corsair burning on the ground. Sixteen planes had been in a dive, doing a complex weaving maneuver, when another pilot rammed Lou from the side, breaking his plane in half.

Lou in Okinawa 1944
Lou back in the Cockpit of a Corsair, in Okinawa 1944.