 He was subsequently ordered for the operational training at Naval Air Station Melbourne, Florida and remained there until March 1944, practicing aerial gunnery.Turner was subsequently assigned to the Fighter Squadron 82 in San Diego, California and after almost a year of training, his squadron embarked aboard the aircraft carrier USS "Bennington" for Southwest Pacific as the part of the United States Fifth Fleet under Admiral Raymond A. Spruance.Turner flew his Grumman F6F Hellcat during the bombing missions against Japanese homeland airfields, including Tokyo and later participated in the support operations at Iwo Jima and Okinawa in early 1945.