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--- Timeline_of_Earth-1_19th_century_to_1940s [2019/08/14 06:33] – [1941] docquantum
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 ===December, 1941===
   * December 7: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, resulting in the United States entering World War II.
-  * With the U.S. officially in the war, Richard "Buck" Dare retires as Captain X in order to act as a spy behind enemy lines, code named Aviator. ["Vows," The Fury of Firestorm #50 (August, 1986)]
+  * Reporter Wayne Clifford is recalled home against his wishes by his newspaper publisher. With the attack on Pearl Harbor, Clifford hopes to become a war correspondent again by writing an accurate account of it, only to come up against U.S. government censorship on the attack. Reunited with fellow reporter Ed Barnes, he learns that Barnes' son was killed at Pearl Harbor. ["The Yanks Are Comin'!" Unknown Soldier #243 (September, 1980)]
+  * With the U.S. officially in the war, Richard "Buck" Dare officially retires as Captain X in order to act as a spy behind enemy lines, code named Aviator. ["Vows," The Fury of Firestorm #50 (August, 1986)]
 ====1942====
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   * Sgt. Rock and Easy Company start combat in World War II beginning in North Africa, followed by Italy (1943), France and Belgium (1944), and Germany (1945).
   * Jeb Stuart commands the Haunted Tank.
+===February, 1942===
+  * Reporter Wayne Clifford begins dating a young woman named Joy Winters, who wants to be an army nurse. ["Homefront," Unknown Soldier #244 (October, 1980)]
+===March, 1942===
+  * Wayne Clifford takes a new assignment as a combat reporter at Bataan in the Philippines, currently under attack by the Japanese, only to realize upon arrival how dire the situation is when he spots Gen. Douglas MacArthur secretly evacuated on the same ship he came in on. ["The Battle of Bataan," Unknown Soldier #254 (August, 1981)]
 ===April, 1942===
+  * April 1: Commander Steel (Hank Heywood) crosses over from Earth-2 and establishes a new life for himself on Earth-1.
   * The Boy Commandos have first public case. //Note: This is the Earth-1 version of the Earth-2 team.// [Detective Comics #64]
   * Albert Hollerer of Germany becomes a wood elemental called the Heap. [Swamp Thing v2 #47]
   * Microwave Man goes into retirement for 40 years. [Action Comics #487]
-  * April 1: Commander Steel (Hank Heywood) crosses over from Earth-2 and establishes a new life for himself on Earth-1.
+  * Combat reporter Wayne Clifford is captured as a prisoner of war by the Japanese along with U.S. troops in Bataan, and is a witness to the atrocities of the Bataan death march, in which weaker soldiers are left to die, and others are used for bayonet practice, on the long march to inland prison camps. Although Clifford manages to escape captivity along with a couple of American soldiers, it is not known if he managed to reach a safe haven. //Note: Wayne Clifford's activities after this story remain unknown.// ["Battling Orphans," Unknown Soldier #255 (September, 1981), "Death March," Unknown Soldier #256 (October, 1981)]
 ===November, 1942===