Portrait of the five Sullivan brothers, (L-R) Joseph, Francis, Albert, Madison and George Sullivan, who all served, and perished, on the USS Juneau in 1942. The result: its 1942 “sole-survivor policy,” later known as Directive 1315.15 Special Separation Policies for Survivorship. In response to the deaths of the Sullivan brothers-and several other sets of brothers who had perished up to this point in the war-the U.S. In fact, at least 30 sets of brothers were serving on the Juneau when it sank. Some officials saw it as a way to keep family morale high. military to place siblings together, but it wasn’t discouraged either. The Navy agreed to their request that all five would serve together on the same ship. Navy after the death of a friend at Pearl Harbor. Onboard were five brothers: George, Francis, Joseph, Madison and Albert Sullivan, who had all enlisted into the U.S. On the morning of November 13, 1942, Japanese torpedoes sank the American cruiser USS Juneau during the battle of Guadalcanal in the South Pacific. The real-life story that inspired Spielberg’s film began more than two years before the rescue depicted in Saving Private Ryan. American soldiers amid the rubble of a heavily damaged town in the wake of the D-Day invasion by Allied forces during World War II, 1944.
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