$500,000
LOST IN SAILOR RESCUE
Marines
Receive Commendations, Not Reprimands
SAN
FRANCISCO, Calif.—Announced today, four marines aboard the U.S.S. Yorktown rescued five sailors in June of this year after the vessel
was hit by a torpedo in the Battle of Midway,
but leave $500,000 in cash behind on the deck of the carrier as it sank.
Marines Pfc. Peter Shultz, Sgt. P.E. Canton, Cpl. Peter Kikos, and Pfc. Stanley
Kozloski had been entrusted with some record books and the half million dollars
by a chief petty officer. The marines lowered the officer and record books into
a lifeboat when a boatswain’s mate alerted them of the five sailors in trouble
below deck. The money was left on the deck as the marines rushed to aid the
sailors. Shultz has been recommended for a citation for putting his own life-jacket
on one of the sailors and jumping into the water to guide him to a rescue boat.
The money was not recovered.
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