Lieutenant Commander Robert Bernier, USNR (Ret.), served as a pilot and patrol-plane commander with VP-65 from 1979 to 1991. He finished his 35-year flying career as an international airline captain and is currently helping restore a Marine AU-1 Corsair at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. His magazine articles have appeared in Aviation History and Smithsonian’s Air & Space.
Dick Couch was a surface-warfare officer and SEAL platoon commander in Vietnam. He has written 14 books, including The Sheriff of Ramadi (Naval Institute Press, 2008), and coauthored the novelization of the SEAL movie Act of Valor. Most recently he was embedded with the 75th Ranger Regiment for his forthcoming work Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger.
Dr. William S. Dudley is the former director of both the Naval Historical Center and Naval History for the chief of Naval Operations. He is the author of Maritime Maryland: A History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010).
Captain Patrick Grant retired in 1995 after 30 years of Navy service, including active-duty tours in the USS Oriskany (CVA-34) and on the staff of commander, Cruiser Destroyer Force Pacific, during the Vietnam War. In civilian life he was a senior vice president of marketing for an insurance company and is currently a columnist for the Los Angeles Times–affiliated Glendale News-Press.
Giles Healy is a film producer, writer, and travel photographer. He studied history at Leeds University in the 1980s and has maintained a passionate interest in his subject ever since. He lives with his wife and two children in the heart of the English countryside.
Colonel Charles A. Jones, USMCR (Ret.), has three historical interests: Iwo Jima, 7 December 1941, and B-29s. He has researched and written extensively about Iwo Jima and wrote a guidebook for Oahu, Hawaii’s World War II Military Sites (Mutual Publishing, 2002). His article about his father’s B-29 crew was published in the April 2010 issue of Air Force Magazine.
Peter A. Marshall, a resident of Port Chester, New York, has an avid interest in naval and aviation history, scale modeling, and book collecting. “The Invincible’s Explosive Photo” is his second published article; his first, “History of the U.S. Navy 7”/45 Gun,” was published in Warship International in 2010.
Alan Rems, a retired certified public accountant, has been a regular contributor to Naval History since his article titled “Halsey Knows the Straight Story” appeared in the August 2008 issue and earned him selection as the magazine’s Author of the Year.