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...hero came home from Bataan. Lieut. John Duncan Bulkeley, a hero of the Subic Bay sinking of a 5,000-ton Jap supply ship and commander of the PT boat squadron which whisked MacArthur out of the Philippines, arrived in San Francisco last week, and was flown across the continent to New York. People were waiting to see him: his wife, his mother and father, his 19-months-old daughter, whom he had not seen since last August, his five-weeks-old son, whom he had never seen. There also were cheering neighbors, U.S. flags fluttering in the doorway...
...Lieut. Bulkeley made stiff little speeches for the press and the newsreels: "He [General MacArthur] believes that with a couple of hundred of them [PTs] we could sweep the Japanese from the sea...The Japanese are very brave, pugnacious fighters. . . . We feel the Navy is trying to do a good job in the Far East...
...Navy had its heroes. A swift motor torpedo boat commanded by Lieut. John D. Bulkeley slipped into Subic Bay one night and sank a 5,000-ton Jap ship, got away clean. A week later Bulkeley returned, this time in a torpedo boat commanded by Ensign George Cox, to knock off another 5,000-tonner. Meanwhile more than 200 miles north of Manila a band of Philippine guerrillas burst from the hills and slashed at a Jap airdrome at Tuguegarao on Northern Luzon. They reported (presumably by radio to Corregidor) that they had killed no Japs, routed 300 more...
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