HEROES: Welcome Home

A 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 of his apartment house in Long...

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