Word: bannon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destroyers, the "tin can fleet," are generally named after naval heroes. MacDonald's can, the O'Bannon, is named after a marine. The marine was Lieut. Presley N. O'Bannon, a whooping, crop-haired Irishman from Kentucky, who in 1805 led the Marines (seven of them) to the "shores of Tripoli." O'Bannon and a motley crew of Greeks, Arabs and Egyptians marched across the Libyan desert to attack the Barbary pirates in their stronghold at Derna. After considerable derring-do, O'Bannon breached the ramparts, raised the Stars and Stripes...
...York City police were not unduly excited. Said Washington Heights's Inspector Joseph Bannon: "The situation is much exaggerated. Things are very calm and collected in Washington Heights." Said Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine: "AntiSemitism is always a problem in a large, heterogeneous city such as New York." But he ordered an increase in mobile detective patrol in the affected areas...
Young Captain Patrick Bannon, a "sound chip off an old Gloucester block" ("God rest his iron soul"), is a Reservist whom the Navy has told to "fish a little longer." Obeying the order with a true seaman's pleasure ("his mighty nose snuffed up the spray's champagne"), he takes the "sweet sailer and . . . good earner" Daniel Webster out to the Grand Banks with a weather eye peeled for wartime trouble. Aboard are two new men, Danes by their claim-Conrad and Holger...
...Bannon becomes suspicious of a Danish square-rigger, Den Magre Kvind. His suspicions mount when the Daniel finds, in an open boat, three slaughtered Danes whom Holger mourns too loudly and whom Conrad deduces, from their pallor and their oily hands, to be U-boat engineers executed for a breach of discipline. The square-rigger has been shelled into half-ruin and her Captain Skalder, whose curses fall "like bars of iron" through his great red block of beard, says he is bound for Halifax with a cargo of rum. But Bannon notices that the shell wounds were made with...
...good hundred torpedoes, enough mines to drive a hole through the seabottom. The Gaunt Woman is a U-boat supply ship, "the bitch at whose dugs they must feed or starve." With the aid of Conrad and Margaret MacLean ("a strapping girl, done up in seagoing style"), Bannon sets about forcing the devils to eat their own brimstone. He succeeds in making the Gaunt Woman one gigantic time bomb for the ruin of her U-boat offspring. As she blows, Bannon lifts "his clenched hands in a gesture of malediction," says "so perish the enemies of free men." With...