Hartney

Hartney is currently carried in the status of Missing.

Hartney, James C. 1991

Lt Col Hartney, I was deeply saddened to see that he did not return alive, although his remains were returned in 1989.

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But, the elder Kuper pointed out to Hartney, it could take days for a rescue plane to arrive.

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A report from a patrol plane was handed him saying that about “60 white men in water posit 10-30 south 161-05 east at 1100 -11 14th x dropped 1 yellow life raft”—the boat, obviously, that Joe Hartney was so determined to retrieve.

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The rainstorm that had threatened to capsize the little yellow boat manned by Joe Hartney, Jimmy Fitzgerald, and Lieutenant Wang turned out to be a blessing.

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Hartney and Fitzgerald inched their way forward until they reached the fifty-yard-wide lagoon that ran parallel with the beach, the body of water they had seen from a distance.

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The rubber boat and the supplies aboard could save Lieutenant Wang and all the others, Hartney pointed out to Fitzgerald.

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When he reached the surface, he swam for about three hours, and just when he was ready to quit, thinking he was the only survivor, he spotted the raft that carried Hartney and Wang.

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While Lieutenant Wang feasted, Joe Hartney and Jimmy Fitzgerald foraged—until they, too, found themselves face-to-face with a group of “savages.”

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Hartney, at twenty-one, had been in the Navy for four years, having joined for a double reason.

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