article_snippet.sent: William Benn, who lost them in 1939 at a coastal artillery placement on Salisbury Beach.
article_snippet.sent: William Benn manned a gun during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
article_snippet.sent: William Benn was awarded the Silver Star for shooting down several Japanese aircraft the next year as a tail gunner on a B-17 bomber at the Battle of Midway.
article_snippet.sent: William Benn died in 2002.
article_snippet.sent: William Benn of Providence, Rhode Island .
highlights_snippet.sent: lost them in 1939 at a coastal artillery placement on Salisbury Beach .
  