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Description U.S. Navy Lt. George W. Polk, circa 1943. After the invasion of Guadalcanal, the first element of Construction Unit Base 1 (CUB-1), an advance fuel and supply base, landed on 16 August 1942. This element, under Ensign George W. Polk, USNR, consisted of five officers and 118 enlisted personnel, all navy petty officers of aviation support ratings. CUB-1 later received a Presidential Unit Citation for its service. Polk also performed duty as a "volunteer" dive bomber and reconnaissance pilot. He was wounded, suffered from malaria and was hospitalized for almost a year. After the war, Polk became a noted newsman for the Columbia Broadcasting System, and was murdered by terrorists during the Greek Civil War in 1948.
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Source U.S. Navy All Hands magazine April 1944, p. 32.
Author U.S. Navy
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(Reusing this file)		 "All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official Department of Defense photographs unless otherwise designated."

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