Oscar Granger, founder and president of the USS Midway Veterans Association (MVA) for the past 14 years, passed away on October 13, 2024, from cancer. He served on Midway from 1962-65 as a Radarmen Second Class (RD2). Many years later, after he and Ron McPhail had co-founded the MVA, Oscar became MVA’s president and lead the MVA until September of 2022.
He leaves behind an impressive legacy of his days on Midway, where he was a radar operator in Midway’s OI Division, working primarily in Combat Information Center (CIC). He had a reputation of being among the “Best of the Best,” and he was often called to tackle the toughest jobs in CIC, one of which was working closely with Midway pilots to radar-vector their planes to potential targets. He was onboard during Midway’s first mission to Vietnam in 1965 and he put forward his best radaring skills.
