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Missing In Action. Naval Reserve Lieut. Joseph Marcus George, 31, younger son of Georgia's able, conservative Senator Walter Franklin George; in an Atlantic coast patrol plane...
Lieut, (j.g.) John F. Kennedy, 26-year-old son of the ex-Ambassador to Britain, was commanding a PT boat on night patrol north of New Georgia when a Jap destroyer sliced it in two. The aft portion went up in flames. Kennedy rescued two of his crewmen, clung to the bow with them and eight others for twelve hours, towed one of the men on a three-hour swim to a small island. There they lived on coconuts for three days, then swam to a larger island, where friendly natives found them the next day, carried back...
...soar. Chuck Horner said: "This is the hardest battle we've had since El Guettar. I think"cross your fingers"we're going to get Troina tonight." Another Night. Except for the small pocket on our right, the Germans seemed to have departed. Chuck Horner chose a patrol to scout the approaches to the town. As the sun sank behind the hills, casting its last rays on the cliff of Troina, Major Horner gave Lieut. Mastyl, who was the leader of the patrol, his last instructions: "If you get up to the town and there's nobody...
Navy records call her PC-487. Navy men call her "The Little Fellow," and say it with affectionate pride. Like dozens of her sisters who do the monotonous patrol work of the war at sea. PC-487 is a modest, unspectacular little warship, about 170 ft. long, of 600 tons displacement. Her commander is a reserve lieutenant, chubby, ruddy W. Gordon Cornell, a Staten Islander...
...rolled, her conning tower awash. Machine gunners on the patrol boat poured streams of bullets into the enemy craft. The forward deck gun crew got off one round?a direct hit on the conning tower?as the 487 circled to ram again. Now the submarine was almost entirely on the surface. The Little Fellow crashed into the Jap just forward of the conning tower, rolling the sub over. A wavering periscope scraped the side of the 487's hull, broke a stanchion on deck and came within an inch of decapitating Skipper Cornell...