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Marine Sgt James Richard Atkins.
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Casualty Info
Home Town Lone Pine
Last Address Wife, Mrs. James R. Atkins Wellington, New Zealand.
Casualty Date Nov 20, 1943
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Location Kiribati
Location of Interment National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (VA) - Honolulu, Hawaii
USS Yorktown (CV-5) was an aircraft carrier commissioned in the United States Navy from 1937 until she was sunk at the Battle of Midway in June 1942. She was named after the Battle of Yorktown in 1781 and the lead ship of the Yorktown class which was designed after lessons learned from operations with the large converted battlecruiser Lexington class and the smaller purpose-built USS Ranger. She was sunk by Japanese submarine I-68 on 6 June 1942 during the Battle of Midway.
