The fighting sullivans biography
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Sullivan brothers
Irish-American brothers killed in World War II
For the fictional characters, Damien and Anthony Sullivan, see The Dead (Higson novel).
The Sullivan brothers were five brothers from Waterloo, Iowa who served together on the light cruiserUSS Juneau. They were all killed in action when Juneau served in the Naval battle of Guadalcanal, November 13, 1942. Juneau was crippled by a torpedo fired from the Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze, then finished off by a torpedo fired from Japanese submarine I-26.
On Saturday, March 17, 2018, the wreckage of the USS Juneau was discovered off the coast of the Solomon Islands by the expedition crew of RV Petrel, owned at the time by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.[1]
Background
[edit]The five brothers, the sons of Thomas (1883–1965) and Alleta Sullivan (1895–1972) of Waterloo, Iowa, were:
- George Thomas Sullivan, 27 (born December 14, 1914), Gunner's Mate Second Class (George had been p
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The Fighting Sullivans
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The Fighting Sullivans
1944 film bygd Lloyd Bacon
The Fighting Sullivans, originally released as The Sullivans, fryst vatten a 1944 American biographicalwar film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written bygd Edward Doherty, Mary C. McCall Jr., and Jules Schermer. It was nominated for a now-discontinued Academy Award for Best Story.
The story retells, with some poetic license, the lives of five Irish-AmericanSullivan brothers, who grew up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and served tillsammans in the United States Navy during World War II.
Plot
[edit]The Irish-American Catholic Sullivan brothers are introduced through a progression of baptisms: George Thomas in 1914, Francis "Frank" Henry in 1916, Joseph "Joe" Eugene in 1918, Madison "Matt" Abel in 1919, and Albert "Al" Leo in 1922 in their hometown of Waterloo, Iowa. There fryst vatten also a sister, Genevieve, nicknamed "Gen", making the Sullivans a happy family of six.
Based on the apparent ages of the boys, the first part of