Ellis M. Hulse is found in Haxtun, Phillips County, Colorado in the 1930 United States Federal Census (6 Colorado) and 1940 United States Federal Census (16 Colorado). His family had lived in Rural, Keith County, Nebraska in 1935.
Ellis M. Hulse enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corp on 31 May 1941. He attended boot camp and Sea School in San Diego, California.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: July 1941 Fourth Recruit Battalion, Recruit Depot, Base Troops, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California. – Private Ellis M Hulse, enlisted 31 May 1941, 18, Qual Mks 25, to SeaS, Rdep, Post.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: July 1941 Sea School, Recruit Depot, Base Troops, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California – Private Ellis M Hulse, enlisted 31 May 1941, 25, jdfr 4thRBn, Rdep, Base.
His first assignment was with the USS Indianapolis.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: October 1941 Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Indianapolis At Sea, Hawaiian Area – Private Ellis M Hulse; 1-31, msm.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: January 1942 Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Indianapolis Nyd, Pearl Harbor, T.H. – Private Ellis M Hulse; transferred 5, to MD, USS LEXINGTON, this Nyd.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the bulk of the “Indy’s” Marines were transferred to the fleet carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) on 05 January 1942.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: January 1942 Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Lexington – Private Ellis M Hulse; enlisted 31 May 1940. 5, JdFr MD, USS INDIANAPOLIS 6-31, ComScoFor Flag Orderly.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: April 1942 Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Lexington – Private Ellis M Hulse.
Private Hulse was a member of the Marine detachment aboard the carrier USS Lexington. He served with the #2 Anti-Aircraft Battery as the sight setter for the #6 five-inch gun.
He sailed across the Pacific with the Lexington, and in May of 1942 fought in the first strictly carrier-based engagement of the war in the Coral Sea.
"Ellis Hulse was at his gun on the morning of May 8, 1942, as the carrier’s air group roared off to attack the Japanese fleet on the last day of the battle of the Coral Sea. Enemy aircraft spotted the Americans, and at about 1100 hours, attack planes broke through the screen of antiaircraft fire. Two torpedoes and one bomb struck near Hulse’s Gallery #2, killing and wounding most of the crew and setting off ammunition stored in a locker nearby. Source: https://missingmarines.com/category/1942/coral-sea/uss-lexington/page/2/
Eighteen year old Private Hulse was one of the gunners killed in the attack.
The bomb that hit the flight deck set off the powder in the magazine for Gun #6, and the resulting fire destroyed the gun and most if not all of its crew, as well as three men from Gun #4. Corporal Vincent Anderson, a Marine who had served with Gun #6 before joining Gun #10, witnessed the attack and stated that all fourteen men on the crew were killed by the explosion.
Private Hulse would be commended with seventeen other men in an official Marine Corps dispatch:
18 MARINES COMMENDED POSTHUMOUSLY FOR HEROIC ACTION ABOARD USS LEXINGTON
Eighteen enlisted Marines who were killed in action aboard the USS LEXINGTON have been commended by their superior officers for setting “an example of courage and devotion to duty of the highest order.”
Members of the crew of Number Two Anti-Aircraft Battery on the aircraft carrier, the 18 men were cited as follows: “They remained at their posts efficiently performing assigned duties during strafing, explosions of torpedoes in the near vicinity of the battery, and after an aerial bomb had exploded and fired a locker of heavy ammunition at the battery.
They extinguished the fire, policed the battery and readied the only remaining serviceable gun for further defense of the ship. As a result of their actions, they efficiently assisted in the defense of LEXINGTON by fast, accurate fire under extremely difficult circumstances.
Corporal Elwin E. Smith
Corporal John R. Harshbarger
Corporal Oliver D. Nichelson
Corporal Robert A. Herzog
Private 1st class Donald J. Sibler
Private 1st class Francis M. Woods
Private 1st class Hanry Zemola
Private 1st class Edward J. Juszkowski
Private 1st class Richard T. Anderson
Private 1st class Arthur W. Carson
Private 1st class Marvin B. Schluessel
Private 1st class Layne Nordstrom
Private Gail L. Sherwood
Private John M. Steele
Private Ellis M. Hulse
Private M. L. Landwehr
Private James J. Corbin
Private Leonard S. Mayfield
In all some 216 crewmen were killed on the Lexington that day. It was the first US aircraft carrier to be lost in World War II.
U.S., Navy Casualties Books – Colorado Dead: Hulse, Ellis M., Pvt., USMC. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Hulse, 605 Santa Fe Drive, Denver.
Pvt Ellis Merton Hulse has another cenotaph in the Haxtun Cemetery, Haxtun, Phillips County, Colorado
Ellis M. Hulse enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corp on 31 May 1941. He attended boot camp and Sea School in San Diego, California.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: July 1941 Fourth Recruit Battalion, Recruit Depot, Base Troops, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California. – Private Ellis M Hulse, enlisted 31 May 1941, 18, Qual Mks 25, to SeaS, Rdep, Post.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: July 1941 Sea School, Recruit Depot, Base Troops, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California – Private Ellis M Hulse, enlisted 31 May 1941, 25, jdfr 4thRBn, Rdep, Base.
His first assignment was with the USS Indianapolis.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: October 1941 Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Indianapolis At Sea, Hawaiian Area – Private Ellis M Hulse; 1-31, msm.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: January 1942 Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Indianapolis Nyd, Pearl Harbor, T.H. – Private Ellis M Hulse; transferred 5, to MD, USS LEXINGTON, this Nyd.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the bulk of the “Indy’s” Marines were transferred to the fleet carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) on 05 January 1942.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: January 1942 Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Lexington – Private Ellis M Hulse; enlisted 31 May 1940. 5, JdFr MD, USS INDIANAPOLIS 6-31, ComScoFor Flag Orderly.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: April 1942 Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Lexington – Private Ellis M Hulse.
Private Hulse was a member of the Marine detachment aboard the carrier USS Lexington. He served with the #2 Anti-Aircraft Battery as the sight setter for the #6 five-inch gun.
He sailed across the Pacific with the Lexington, and in May of 1942 fought in the first strictly carrier-based engagement of the war in the Coral Sea.
"Ellis Hulse was at his gun on the morning of May 8, 1942, as the carrier’s air group roared off to attack the Japanese fleet on the last day of the battle of the Coral Sea. Enemy aircraft spotted the Americans, and at about 1100 hours, attack planes broke through the screen of antiaircraft fire. Two torpedoes and one bomb struck near Hulse’s Gallery #2, killing and wounding most of the crew and setting off ammunition stored in a locker nearby. Source: https://missingmarines.com/category/1942/coral-sea/uss-lexington/page/2/
Eighteen year old Private Hulse was one of the gunners killed in the attack.
The bomb that hit the flight deck set off the powder in the magazine for Gun #6, and the resulting fire destroyed the gun and most if not all of its crew, as well as three men from Gun #4. Corporal Vincent Anderson, a Marine who had served with Gun #6 before joining Gun #10, witnessed the attack and stated that all fourteen men on the crew were killed by the explosion.
Private Hulse would be commended with seventeen other men in an official Marine Corps dispatch:
18 MARINES COMMENDED POSTHUMOUSLY FOR HEROIC ACTION ABOARD USS LEXINGTON
Eighteen enlisted Marines who were killed in action aboard the USS LEXINGTON have been commended by their superior officers for setting “an example of courage and devotion to duty of the highest order.”
Members of the crew of Number Two Anti-Aircraft Battery on the aircraft carrier, the 18 men were cited as follows: “They remained at their posts efficiently performing assigned duties during strafing, explosions of torpedoes in the near vicinity of the battery, and after an aerial bomb had exploded and fired a locker of heavy ammunition at the battery.
They extinguished the fire, policed the battery and readied the only remaining serviceable gun for further defense of the ship. As a result of their actions, they efficiently assisted in the defense of LEXINGTON by fast, accurate fire under extremely difficult circumstances.
Corporal Elwin E. Smith
Corporal John R. Harshbarger
Corporal Oliver D. Nichelson
Corporal Robert A. Herzog
Private 1st class Donald J. Sibler
Private 1st class Francis M. Woods
Private 1st class Hanry Zemola
Private 1st class Edward J. Juszkowski
Private 1st class Richard T. Anderson
Private 1st class Arthur W. Carson
Private 1st class Marvin B. Schluessel
Private 1st class Layne Nordstrom
Private Gail L. Sherwood
Private John M. Steele
Private Ellis M. Hulse
Private M. L. Landwehr
Private James J. Corbin
Private Leonard S. Mayfield
In all some 216 crewmen were killed on the Lexington that day. It was the first US aircraft carrier to be lost in World War II.
U.S., Navy Casualties Books – Colorado Dead: Hulse, Ellis M., Pvt., USMC. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Hulse, 605 Santa Fe Drive, Denver.
Pvt Ellis Merton Hulse has another cenotaph in the Haxtun Cemetery, Haxtun, Phillips County, Colorado
Ellis M. Hulse is found in Haxtun, Phillips County, Colorado in the 1930 United States Federal Census (6 Colorado) and 1940 United States Federal Census (16 Colorado). His family had lived in Rural, Keith County, Nebraska in 1935.
Ellis M. Hulse enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corp on 31 May 1941. He attended boot camp and Sea School in San Diego, California.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: July 1941 Fourth Recruit Battalion, Recruit Depot, Base Troops, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California. – Private Ellis M Hulse, enlisted 31 May 1941, 18, Qual Mks 25, to SeaS, Rdep, Post.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: July 1941 Sea School, Recruit Depot, Base Troops, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California – Private Ellis M Hulse, enlisted 31 May 1941, 25, jdfr 4thRBn, Rdep, Base.
His first assignment was with the USS Indianapolis.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: October 1941 Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Indianapolis At Sea, Hawaiian Area – Private Ellis M Hulse; 1-31, msm.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: January 1942 Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Indianapolis Nyd, Pearl Harbor, T.H. – Private Ellis M Hulse; transferred 5, to MD, USS LEXINGTON, this Nyd.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the bulk of the “Indy’s” Marines were transferred to the fleet carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) on 05 January 1942.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: January 1942 Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Lexington – Private Ellis M Hulse; enlisted 31 May 1940. 5, JdFr MD, USS INDIANAPOLIS 6-31, ComScoFor Flag Orderly.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: April 1942 Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Lexington – Private Ellis M Hulse.
Private Hulse was a member of the Marine detachment aboard the carrier USS Lexington. He served with the #2 Anti-Aircraft Battery as the sight setter for the #6 five-inch gun.
He sailed across the Pacific with the Lexington, and in May of 1942 fought in the first strictly carrier-based engagement of the war in the Coral Sea.
"Ellis Hulse was at his gun on the morning of May 8, 1942, as the carrier’s air group roared off to attack the Japanese fleet on the last day of the battle of the Coral Sea. Enemy aircraft spotted the Americans, and at about 1100 hours, attack planes broke through the screen of antiaircraft fire. Two torpedoes and one bomb struck near Hulse’s Gallery #2, killing and wounding most of the crew and setting off ammunition stored in a locker nearby. Source: https://missingmarines.com/category/1942/coral-sea/uss-lexington/page/2/
Eighteen year old Private Hulse was one of the gunners killed in the attack.
The bomb that hit the flight deck set off the powder in the magazine for Gun #6, and the resulting fire destroyed the gun and most if not all of its crew, as well as three men from Gun #4. Corporal Vincent Anderson, a Marine who had served with Gun #6 before joining Gun #10, witnessed the attack and stated that all fourteen men on the crew were killed by the explosion.
Private Hulse would be commended with seventeen other men in an official Marine Corps dispatch:
18 MARINES COMMENDED POSTHUMOUSLY FOR HEROIC ACTION ABOARD USS LEXINGTON
Eighteen enlisted Marines who were killed in action aboard the USS LEXINGTON have been commended by their superior officers for setting “an example of courage and devotion to duty of the highest order.”
Members of the crew of Number Two Anti-Aircraft Battery on the aircraft carrier, the 18 men were cited as follows: “They remained at their posts efficiently performing assigned duties during strafing, explosions of torpedoes in the near vicinity of the battery, and after an aerial bomb had exploded and fired a locker of heavy ammunition at the battery.
They extinguished the fire, policed the battery and readied the only remaining serviceable gun for further defense of the ship. As a result of their actions, they efficiently assisted in the defense of LEXINGTON by fast, accurate fire under extremely difficult circumstances.
Corporal Elwin E. Smith
Corporal John R. Harshbarger
Corporal Oliver D. Nichelson
Corporal Robert A. Herzog
Private 1st class Donald J. Sibler
Private 1st class Francis M. Woods
Private 1st class Hanry Zemola
Private 1st class Edward J. Juszkowski
Private 1st class Richard T. Anderson
Private 1st class Arthur W. Carson
Private 1st class Marvin B. Schluessel
Private 1st class Layne Nordstrom
Private Gail L. Sherwood
Private John M. Steele
Private Ellis M. Hulse
Private M. L. Landwehr
Private James J. Corbin
Private Leonard S. Mayfield
In all some 216 crewmen were killed on the Lexington that day. It was the first US aircraft carrier to be lost in World War II.
U.S., Navy Casualties Books – Colorado Dead: Hulse, Ellis M., Pvt., USMC. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Hulse, 605 Santa Fe Drive, Denver.
Pvt Ellis Merton Hulse has another cenotaph in the Haxtun Cemetery, Haxtun, Phillips County, Colorado
Ellis M. Hulse enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corp on 31 May 1941. He attended boot camp and Sea School in San Diego, California.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: July 1941 Fourth Recruit Battalion, Recruit Depot, Base Troops, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California. – Private Ellis M Hulse, enlisted 31 May 1941, 18, Qual Mks 25, to SeaS, Rdep, Post.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: July 1941 Sea School, Recruit Depot, Base Troops, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California – Private Ellis M Hulse, enlisted 31 May 1941, 25, jdfr 4thRBn, Rdep, Base.
His first assignment was with the USS Indianapolis.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: October 1941 Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Indianapolis At Sea, Hawaiian Area – Private Ellis M Hulse; 1-31, msm.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: January 1942 Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Indianapolis Nyd, Pearl Harbor, T.H. – Private Ellis M Hulse; transferred 5, to MD, USS LEXINGTON, this Nyd.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the bulk of the “Indy’s” Marines were transferred to the fleet carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) on 05 January 1942.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: January 1942 Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Lexington – Private Ellis M Hulse; enlisted 31 May 1940. 5, JdFr MD, USS INDIANAPOLIS 6-31, ComScoFor Flag Orderly.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: April 1942 Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Lexington – Private Ellis M Hulse.
Private Hulse was a member of the Marine detachment aboard the carrier USS Lexington. He served with the #2 Anti-Aircraft Battery as the sight setter for the #6 five-inch gun.
He sailed across the Pacific with the Lexington, and in May of 1942 fought in the first strictly carrier-based engagement of the war in the Coral Sea.
"Ellis Hulse was at his gun on the morning of May 8, 1942, as the carrier’s air group roared off to attack the Japanese fleet on the last day of the battle of the Coral Sea. Enemy aircraft spotted the Americans, and at about 1100 hours, attack planes broke through the screen of antiaircraft fire. Two torpedoes and one bomb struck near Hulse’s Gallery #2, killing and wounding most of the crew and setting off ammunition stored in a locker nearby. Source: https://missingmarines.com/category/1942/coral-sea/uss-lexington/page/2/
Eighteen year old Private Hulse was one of the gunners killed in the attack.
The bomb that hit the flight deck set off the powder in the magazine for Gun #6, and the resulting fire destroyed the gun and most if not all of its crew, as well as three men from Gun #4. Corporal Vincent Anderson, a Marine who had served with Gun #6 before joining Gun #10, witnessed the attack and stated that all fourteen men on the crew were killed by the explosion.
Private Hulse would be commended with seventeen other men in an official Marine Corps dispatch:
18 MARINES COMMENDED POSTHUMOUSLY FOR HEROIC ACTION ABOARD USS LEXINGTON
Eighteen enlisted Marines who were killed in action aboard the USS LEXINGTON have been commended by their superior officers for setting “an example of courage and devotion to duty of the highest order.”
Members of the crew of Number Two Anti-Aircraft Battery on the aircraft carrier, the 18 men were cited as follows: “They remained at their posts efficiently performing assigned duties during strafing, explosions of torpedoes in the near vicinity of the battery, and after an aerial bomb had exploded and fired a locker of heavy ammunition at the battery.
They extinguished the fire, policed the battery and readied the only remaining serviceable gun for further defense of the ship. As a result of their actions, they efficiently assisted in the defense of LEXINGTON by fast, accurate fire under extremely difficult circumstances.
Corporal Elwin E. Smith
Corporal John R. Harshbarger
Corporal Oliver D. Nichelson
Corporal Robert A. Herzog
Private 1st class Donald J. Sibler
Private 1st class Francis M. Woods
Private 1st class Hanry Zemola
Private 1st class Edward J. Juszkowski
Private 1st class Richard T. Anderson
Private 1st class Arthur W. Carson
Private 1st class Marvin B. Schluessel
Private 1st class Layne Nordstrom
Private Gail L. Sherwood
Private John M. Steele
Private Ellis M. Hulse
Private M. L. Landwehr
Private James J. Corbin
Private Leonard S. Mayfield
In all some 216 crewmen were killed on the Lexington that day. It was the first US aircraft carrier to be lost in World War II.
U.S., Navy Casualties Books – Colorado Dead: Hulse, Ellis M., Pvt., USMC. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Hulse, 605 Santa Fe Drive, Denver.
Pvt Ellis Merton Hulse has another cenotaph in the Haxtun Cemetery, Haxtun, Phillips County, Colorado
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