Chief Storekeeper Edgar Wayne Bushnell, USN, was captured by the Japanese after the sinking of his ship, the U.S.S. Houston on February 28, 1942, and was interned as Prisoner of War until his death in captivity.
This week's featured connections are French Notables: Edgar is 17 degrees from Napoléon I Bonaparte, 21 degrees from Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, 24 degrees from Sarah Bernhardt, 35 degrees from Charlemagne Carolingian, 24 degrees from Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 20 degrees from Pierre Curie, 29 degrees from Simone de Beauvoir, 19 degrees from Philippe Denis de Keredern de Trobriand, 19 degrees from Camille de Polignac, 19 degrees from Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 18 degrees from Claude Monet and 24 degrees from Aurore Dupin de Francueil on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.