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CalVet: This Weekend in February 1942 the United States Asiatic Fleet Lost More Than 2,000 Sailors and 10 Ships as the Japanese Scored a Decisive Victory in the Battle of the Java Sea


Published: Sunday, 28 February 2021 05:58
An illustrated view of the Battle of Java Sea.
February 28, 2021 - By Jeff Jardine - In February 1942, less than three months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor – 79 years ago this weekend – the Japanese scored a decisive victory in one of the first actual sea battles in the Pacific, the Battle of Java Sea.
Among the losses to the United States Asiatic Fleet, more than 2,000 sailors and 10 ships: including the U.S. Navy’s first-ever aircraft carrier, USS 
Langley; and its biggest warship in the Far East at the time, the heavy carrier USS 
Houston, in battles a day apart in the Java Sea. Both ships had strong ties to California. ....

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A thirst for equality: Dying Navy veteran's story resonates as Black History Month lesson


A thirst for equality: Dying Navy veteran’s story resonates as Black History Month lesson
A thirst for equality: Dying Navy veteran’s story resonates as Black History Month lesson
One summer afternoon in the late 1950s, eight-year-old Phillip Willis Jr. took a break from
Phillip Willis, Jr
mowing lawns at a home in Jackson, Mississippi. Having worked up a thirst, Willis asked his employer, a white woman, for a glass of water.
That simple and reasonable request required minimal physical effort on the woman’s part. Mainly, it required mere humanity and compassion for a young black kid toiling in the stifling heat and humidity. She begrudgingly gave him the water, Willis said, along with a not-so-subtle reminder that he was a black in America’s Deep South during the Jim Crow era. ....

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CalVet: Just Days After Pearl Harbor Attack, Fall of Wake Island on December 22, 1941 Made Prisoners of War Out of Civilians


Published: Tuesday, 22 December 2020 06:01
December 22, 2020 - By Jeff Jardine  - Just a few hours after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, they also attacked Wake Island, a strategic atoll 2,300 miles west of Honolulu.
(Left) Despite a fierce defense, the Wake Island forces could not hold off the Japanese and all of Wildcats protecting the island were put out of action.
Aided by civilian contractors there building docks and fortifications, U.S. Marines held Wake for 15 more days before Japanese soldiers overran the island on December 22, 79 years ago. When it fell, they took more than 1,600 prisoners of war, including 1,100 civilians. By the time the war ended in 1945, the Japanese had interned more than 14,000 American civilians from Wake Island, Guam, the Philippine Islands, and other American territories or possessions. ....

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