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with the 78th, 79th, and 81st Divisions, for which he received theVictory Medal with battle clasps for St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, and theDefensive Sector.Midway Island, northwest of the Hawaiian Islands and 4,500 milesfrom Manila, was a stopover on the air route to the Philippines.Midway was the westernmost base of the U.S. in the Central Pacificafter the fall of Wake and Guam.MAJ (retired, COL) George E. Mitchell commandedthe Signal Corps Camp, Little Silver, from July 12 toSeptember 15, 1917, when he departed for overseasservice with the American Expeditionary Force.General Orders Number 44, dated March 25, 1954,designated Mitchell Drive. cxxviThe U.S. evacuated Olongapo, on the Subic Bay sideof Bataan, on December 26, 1941.COL George E. MitchellJapanese zeros attacked the naval base at Pearl Harbor on the “dayof infamy,” December 7, 1941.Pinebrook Road runs along the southernmost edge of the CharlesWood Area.COL Donald B. Sanger served in the Signal Corps in the ranks ofCaptain through Colonel from November 5, 1917 to April 30, 1946.He died on February 10, 1947.At Subic Bay on the west coast of Luzon, Japanese naval forcesvirtually destroyed American Army and Navy air power in thePhilippines, December 12, 1941.MAJ James N. Vaughn (1906-1942) died on April 27, 1942 becauseof wounds received on the Death March at Bacolor, Luzon. The Armyawarded him the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. General Order 88,July 10, 1959, designated Vaughn Court.The U.S. Marine detachment on Wake Island mounted a heroicresistance to the Japanese during the attack of December 8, 1941, butsurrendered on December 23, when the Japanese landed on the Islandin force.37/38 .