CASH ABANDONED
0 IN ORDER TO RESCUE COMRADES ACTION OF AMERICAN MARINES. IN SINKING YORKTOWN. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) NEW YORK. October 9. Navy officials disclosed that half a million dollars in cash went down with the air-craft-carrier Yorktown, because four marines, when about to remove the cash from the sinking ship, discovered five sailors below decks in trouble. They rescued their comrades rather than the cash.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 October 1942, Page 3
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72CASH ABANDONED Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 October 1942, Page 3
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