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...possible, when I get to Melbourne I'll get you and your key men out," MacArthur promised Squadron Leader Bulkeley. The men remembered the promise without enthusiasm. They knew that they and their six little ships were chiefly useful for gumming up the works of the Japanese invaders on Bataan. In their 70-by-20 foot, plywood speedboats, they expended all they had in "America's little Dunkirk." But MacArthur kept his promise, and they came back to tell about...
High Point of the Squadron's job was the evacuation of MacArthur, his family and staff. As described by Bulkeley and Kelly it is a mixture of daring and humor, of the Navyman's good-natured contempt for the Army and respect for its leader. Aboard the PTs, gold braid and oak leaves, drenched with roaring spray, were not in their element. "I noticed a figure by the machine-gun turret," says Kelly. "His stomach was long ago empty, but he was leaning forward, retching between his knees." Kelly told a quartermaster to help him below...
Author White tells their remarkable tale with punch and tang. The Navy Department was interested enough to change one letter in the original title, making "expendible" "expendable." Possibly the Navy is also responsible for making Bulkeley describe certain military persons as "dumb dastards...
...Hollywood premiere. Most of the heroes were strange heroes to the towns they visited. The best known was Ensign Donald F. Mason, who radioed the "Sighted sub, sank same" message. None were as fixed in the public mind as earlier Heroes Eddie O'Hare, John D. Bulkeley, Hewitt T. Wheless (see cuts), who also had been toured and feted and cheered. There was little spontaneity about the receptions. The newspapers covered the welcomes adequately, but there were no inspired stories-the story was all covered in the Treasury Department handout...
Next day, by invitation, he went to Borough Hall, received a scroll from the borough president. The 62nd Coast Artillery Corps Band played Anchors Aweigh. That evening Hero Bulkeley made a broadcast...