Word: bluejackets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five minutes later John Gudgel and Dick Johnston were sipping martinis hurriedly in a desperate effort to forget what they had just seen: no bluejacket batting out code to the fleet, but rather, a welder and his torch sealing the seams in two steel plates...
...injured Watson was lashed in a bunk, where he chewed aspirin to kill the pain of his broken ribs. The drinking water had salt in it. Food supplies ran short. Cigarets were soaked, so the crew smoked dried tea leaves and fresh coffee rolled in pages torn from the Bluejacket's Manual. The auxiliary engine was useless. It was impossible to sail her. Day after day, a chip in a maelstrom, the 3070 tossed on the heaving Atlantic, battered by soft. waves, driven by the whims of one storm after another...
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...