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First news of the Kearny's brush came from her gamecock (5 ft. 2% in.) skipper, 42-year-old Lieut. Commander Anthony Leo Danis. It was brief; onetime Airshipman Danis wanted no German raider to spot him through radio messages. Net of his message: the Kearny, torpedoed 350 miles southwest of Iceland, was proceeding to port under her own power...
...Washington the House Patents Committee heard Roy W. Knabenshue, pioneer airshipman, allege that acid had been poured on the late great Macon's girders and guy-wires by the Filipino mess-boy who lost his life in the airship crash. Though Commander Wiley pooh-poohed the suggestion, high Navy officials admitted sabotage was a "distinct possibility...
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