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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 escape Bataan unharmed. //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===