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...trouble big or small breaks out elsewhere, Marines are just as likely to be on the job first, because the Corps has a detachment on every battleship and aircraft carrier, all the heavy cruisers (the newer light cruisers), some other Navy craft. In the old Navy, Marines not only manned the tops (and sometimes the guns) but policed the ship. Because they knew no friends when rules were broken, often brought up sailormen for flogging and imprisonment, they were something less than popular...
...machine. The torpedo would make two miles an hour and could be steered. In hours of darkness, Rossetti and Paolucci maneuvered this strange craft through and over the nets and booms of the harbor, removed one of the war heads and attached it to the side of the battleship Viribus Unitis, pride of the Austrian Navy. The other war head they cut adrift in the tideway. The former sank Viribus Unitis, the latter drifted against and blew up the battleship Wien...
...recent substitutions of Sir Alan Brooke for Lord Gort in the Army, of Sir Charles Portal for Sir Cyril Newall in the R. A. F. Tough "Jack" Tovey, lean and electric, is the man who, commanding the destroyer Onslow at Jutland, engaged first the cruiser Wiesbaden, then the battleship Derfflinger, with only his torpedoes and four-inch guns; stopped fighting only when a hail of shells from the German ships put him out of action...
...other fighting seadog moved up was Rear Admiral Sir Henry H. Harwood, hero of the Battle of the Plate, where with three cruisers he licked the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. Sir Henry was called to the Admiralty to replace Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake as assistant chief of staff and a member of the controlling Admiralty Board...
...Gare de l'Est and business began. Business for René de Chambrun was to be conducted with the 162nd Régiment d'Infanterie de Forteresse, 140 steps down in the Maginot Line's Fort of Rotherberg in Lorraine. Like a sunken battleship, the fortress throbbed eight hours a day as Diesels pumped in air and light. At 10 o'clock the motors stopped. The lights went out. Then sleep in Chambrun's concrete cell battled with claustrophobia. The first night he had to climb up to the iron entrance and gasp for fresh...