And became a "Founding Father" of Army helicopter warfare.
December 7, 1941: Lieutenant Jay D. Vanderpool, a young Army officer stationed at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, awoke to the sights and sounds of the attack on Pearl Harbor. By the end of the day, he was among the handful of survivors digging trenches along the beaches of Oahu, anticipating a Japanese invasion of the Hawaiian Islands. By mid-1943, he had fought on Guadalcanal and New Georgia before volunteering for a top-secret "liaison" mission to the Allied guerrillas in the Philippines. Infiltrating the islands by submarine, Jay Vanderpool made contact with the Allied guerrillas in southern Luzon, and coordinated their operations with the 11th Airborne Division, facilitating the raid on the infamous Los Ba
