World War II Chronicle: November 21, 1942

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Page six marks the 79th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. 11 people who witnessed Pres. Abraham Lincoln deliver his speech were invited to the event. It is worth noting that the person reading this newspaper 80 years ago was one year closer to the Battle of Gettysburg than we are to 1942… Funeral plans for Lt. Gen. John A. Lejeune are detailed on page 14…

Page 24 features a profile of Lt. Cmdr. Bruce McCandless who assumed command of the cruiser USS San Francisco during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Capt. Cassin Young, the ship’s skipper and recipient of the Medal of Honor during the Pearl Harbor attack, was among the many officers killed when Japanese shells wiped out the bridge, leaving only McCandless who is awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions. His father Byron is currently a captain in command of the destroyer yard at San Diego and earned a Navy Cross during the First World War. His great-grandfather was David Colbert McCanles, an outlaw gunned down by “Wild Bill” Hickock in 1861. McCandless’ son Bruce II will join the Navy, becoming a fighter pilot and is selected to become an astronaut in 1966. He serves as CAPCOM (mission control capsule communicator) during the Apollo 11 mission and in 1984 he performs the first untethered spacewalk in the Manned Maneuvering Unit.

Bruce II’s maternal grandfather Capt. Willis W. Bradley also earned the Medal of Honor and serves on the Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey throughout World War II. All these men were Annapolis graduates: Willis Bradley (Class of ’06), Byron (’05), Bruce (’32), and Bruce II finished second in the Class of ’58… Sports begins on page 38

Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 21 November 1942. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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