Ensign Frank W. O'Flaherty was a U.S Navy officer, serving aboard the USS Enterprise. As part of the Enterprise’s Scouting Squadron 6, he contributed to the successful attacks on the Japanese carriers Kaga and Akagi. During that action, however, his aircraft stayed in the air too long, and fuel was running out. Seeing that the tanks were nearly empty, he had to ditch the aircraft in the ocean. He and Bruno Gaido survived the impact but found themselves taken prisoner by crewmembers of a nearby Japanese destroyer, Makigumo.
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- He is a fictional portrayal of the real Frank Woodrow O'Flaherty. [1]