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...corner" of the Bureau of Ships glowed over this latest exploit of "the expendables." They were unable to give the hero's name officially. Unofficially they had reason to believe he was Lieut. Commander Robert Kelly, one of the original members of Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkeley's squadron in the Philippines campaign...
Born. To Frederick Fisk Bulkeley, 76, father of Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkeley, PT-boat hero (They Were Expendable), and Virginia Douglas Bulkeley, 42, his second wife: a son, their first child; in Bayonne, N.J. Weight...
...Islands. On the same night a little fleet of landing boats moved out from Papua, toward the Trobriand and Woodlark Islands. Lieut. Commander John D. Bulkeley, the famed "expendable" who brought General MacArthur out of Corregidor, commanded an escorting section of PT boats. Overhead low-flying P-38s also guarded the convoy...
...year of World War II put enough American fighters into action to earn for them more than 3.838 medals.* Army heroes won 2,298; the Navy's, 1,388; Marines, 147; Coast Guard, 5. Most decorated: the Navy's Lieut. Commander John Bulkeley, 5; the Army's Lieut. Colonel Felix Hardison...
...ever since. Two years ago Showman Josephson opened a Cafe Society Uptown to house her art with greater swank, now finds it packed nightly with Scott fans: socialites, Broadway sophisticates, savants-about-town. Celebrities regard her with reverence, movie stars ask her for autographs. When Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkeley (They Were Expendable) came to New York, he picked out Hazel Scott on the welcoming platform, greeted her with "I've always wanted to meet you, Miss Scott...