Word: bluejacketed
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Perhaps the most interesting feature of the issue is the article, "Bluejacket, P.B.K.," by an anoymous Harvard graduate. Faced with the prospect of immediate entry into the armed services, no undergraduate can afford to miss this penetrating resume of the mixed emotions of the college trained enlisted man. In this article, as throughout the magazine, the approach is that of the student, by the student, and for the student. It is in maintaining the approach in the face of temptation to lose themselves in broader issues, that Threshold is making its greatest contribution. This is a type of clear thought...
...members of a 5-inch gun's crew fell before a strafing attack. The lone remaining bluejacket took over: three times he grabbed a shell from the fuse pot, placed it in the tray, dashed to the other side of the gun, rammed it home, jumped into the pointer's seat and fired. A terrific bomb blast finally carried him over the side. He was rescued...
...awful, sir?" a bluejacket on the Tuscaloosa asked Captain Daehne as they watched the Columbus blaze...
...except the master of this pure and dark domain, master of its purified and black-clad servants. He, the most famed member of the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Alexis Carrel, distinguishes himself from the others with a little white headpiece that looks like the hat of a U. S. bluejacket...
...unique spectacle of a commander forced to bomb the daylights out of a city he was using at the same time as his base for an invasion. In the harbor meanwhile a perky little Japanese armored launch chuffed up to a Chinese warship, took it away from its Chinese bluejacket crew without a fight...