US Navy honor guards carry the coffin of

US Navy honor guards carry the coffin of Ensign Robert G. Tills of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, as he is buried at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington,DC on March 23, 2009. Tills was killed on December 8, 1941, one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when two PBY-4 Catalina Flying Boats moored in Malalag Bay in the Philippines, were strafed and sunk by Japanese aircraft. All of the crew on board the PBYs escaped the aircraft with the exception of Tills, who was seen by another crewman to have been hit and killed by machine gun bullets. Tills was the first Navy officer to be lost in defense of the Philippine Islands. His remains were recovered in November 2007. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)