Sergeant NICK FOKAKIS fought with the 63rd Infantry Regiment, 61st Division, in New Guinea and the Philippines.
His brother, Sgt. GEORGE FOKAKIS, 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Division, also fought there.
Aviation Radioman 2nd Class GEORGE FOWLER flew 36 missions in an SB2C Helldiver from the aircraft carrier USS Essex. Around the Philippines, his pilot scored a direct hit on a Japanese cruiser in October 1944.
Airman Staff Sgt. DAVIS POLVOGT participated in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands attacks. Flak struck his plane and wounded him.
CLYDE POTTER's ship, the carrier USS Lexington, was sunk during the Battle of Coral Sea, May 1942.
Marine Tech Sgt. ALBERT HAYNES, five minutes after landing on Namur, built a communications post "over the bodies of dead Japs."
Lieutenant Cmdr. BENJAMIN ADAMS, JR., commanding the submarine USS Rasher, sank or damaged thousands of tons of Japanese shipping.
--GreGen
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