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During the first day of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Cantor-Stone was part of the air group that sank the
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Joshua G. Cantor-Stone was born in
Detroit, Michigan. Due to his parents' patriotism he was sent to St. John's Military Academy, where he graduated in the class of 1932. He worked odd jobs to pay for his civilian flight training after finding himself with an increased love of airplanes, receiving his
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Although it is unclear how Cantor-Stone actually received his odd nickname, the story goes that, upon first sighting the town of Lae, remarked derisively of having to fight in such a "moor" of a place. The strange appellation was seized upon by the other pilots, who teasingly nicknamed him
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license in 1934. By this time he had heard of Naval Air
Station and entered the new program, from which he graduated in 1939. He completed all of the prerequisites to becoming a Naval Aviator and graduated flight school in 1941, already slated for and trained in the operation of an
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tactics of frequent change of trajectory both in the vertical and horizontal directions while approaching incoming AA-fire, Joshua Cantor-Stone's plane was struck several times by AA-fire from the ShÅkaku and exploded in mid-flight.
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dive-bomber. He was assigned to the USS Lexington immediately and was on-board when she sailed out to Hawai'i.
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