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Photograph of Robert J. Canavan

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Original caption: He's not Clark Gable, but a Coast Guardsman whose adventures with the Japs rival a movie. Robert J. Canavan, 20-year-old coxswain in the U.S. Coast Guard, saw his 36-foot patrol boat sunk by a Japanese cruiser and his five mates machine gunned to death in the Solomon Islands. Canavan swam 19 hours, went two and one-half days wi...
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1939-01-01/1967-12-31
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