(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Corporal Eugene O. Haynes (MCSN: 279813), United States Marine Corps, was awarded the Silver Star (Army Award) for gallantry in action at Fort Mills, Philippine Islands on 6 April 1942.
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Prisoner of War Medal
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Silver Star
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Prisoner of War Medal
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Prisoner of War (Philippine Islands & Japan)Action Date:
May 6, 1942 – September 1945
NARA Database: Records of World War II Prisoners of War, created, 1942 – 1947Corporal Eugene O. Haynes (MCSN: 279813), United States Marine Corps, was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Corregidor, Philippine Islands, on 6 May 1942, and was held as a Prisoner of War until returned to U.S. Military control at the end of the war.
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Silver Star
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2d BattalionRegiment:
4th Marine RegimentAction Date:
April 9, 1942
Headquarters, Philippine Coast Artillery Command, General Orders No. 24 (April 14, 1942)The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a Second Award of the Silver Star (Army Award) to Corporal Eugene O. Haynes (MCSN: 279813), United States Marine Corps, for gallantry in action at Fort Mills, Philippine Islands, on April 9, 1942, while serving with Company F, Fourth Marines, Fort Mills, P.I. When an enemy bomb caved in a tunnel sheltering a gun grew of the 91st Coast Artillery (PS), trapping several men therein, Corporal Haynes, without regard for his personal safety, voluntarily left a place of shelter and proceeded a distance of two hundred yards over open ground to the scene of the cave-in and aided in digging out the trapped men and taking them to an aid station. During all of this time, enemy planes were overhead and dropped bombs nearby during the rescue work.