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Raised as a Roman Catholic, Davis first became seriously interested in Judaism while he was convalescing from his accident, and was much impressed by the Jewish chaplain at San Bernardino's Community Hospital. Several years later, at a charity party for children in San Francisco, he found himself kidding with a young man whom he assumed to be a fellow entertainer. When he turned out to be a Reform rabbi, Davis was delighted. "Everything he said had meaning . . . Our casual conversation began to develop into a deep, soul-searching experience. Once more, my curiosity about Judaism was set aflame...
...Drilling. In Cuneo, Italy, during a party celebrating his tenth year of dental practice, Bernardino Lerda was arrested by authorities, who discovered that he had never graduated from medical or dental school...
...DOONER Captain, A.N.G. San Bernardino, Calif...
...Seventh Fleet's 16 escort carriers-"baby flattops"-of Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague's Task Group 77.4 were operating off Samar without knowing that 1) Halsey had taken off after Ozawa or 2) Kurita had come through unguarded San Bernardino Strait and was only minutes over the horizon. A half-hour later, Kurita's shells began splashing around "Taffy 3," one of Task Group 77-4's three task units, under Rear Admiral Clifton Sprague...
...sunk later by a Japanese kamikaze). He took hits on two carriers, a destroyer and destroyer escort and seemed doomed to far worse. Then came an amazing turnabout. Still recovering from his swim off Palawan Island, bedeviled by the destroyers, Kurita broke off the action, headed back through San Bernardino Strait. Said Admiral Clifton Sprague later: "The failure of the enemy ... to completely wipe out this task unit can be attributed to our successful smoke screen, our torpedo counterattack . . . and the definite partiality of Almighty...