Word: bluejackets
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...drafted at 18, or after he finishes secondary school. Training would be in two parts. The first stage would be basic training in camp or aboard ship for six months. From a military standpoint this is not long enough to turn out a well-trained soldier or a bluejacket. But a longer period, said the committee, would have "an adverse effect on the processes of higher education," which is also an essential part of national defense. During basic, boys would be taught to think, act and react like soldiers. The commission's plan followed almost exactly the one proposed...
...bluejacket who spoke could make allowances for human curiosity. But this was something more. All week long, eager, smiling German-Americans (500 to 2,000 a day) had bustled aboard the Nazi prize cruiser Prinz Eugen to fete her Nazi crew. They carried dozens of white shirts, bags of sugar, cartons of cigarets, beer-trophies few victorious U.S. crews have received in any port...
...bluejacket knew, the 574 Nazi crewmen were supposed to be prisoners, due to be returned to Germany under guard while the Eugen was readied for extinction in the Navy's Pacific atomic-bomb experiment. But the eyes of the visitors from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania saw only heroes...
...Quiet & the Dead. In the instant of the crash, 13 persons were dead. Among them: Colonel Smith, his crew chief Staff Sergeant Christopher Domitrovich, and Albert Perna, a Navy bluejacket who had hitchhiked a ride from New Bedford. Most of the others were girls and women employed by the National Catholic Welfare Conference, which has offices on the 79th floor. Many were burned beyond recognition. The body of a man who worked on that floor was found on a ledge of the 72nd floor; apparently he had been blown out a window...
Seaman First Class Leon LeRoy, 18, had an emergency leave and a No. 3 priority. He was on his way to Antioch, Calif. to comfort his recently widowed mother. At Memphis Bluejacket LeRoy was told to get his gear off the plane: his No. 3 priority had been trumped by a No. 1; 300 pounds of critical material was" coming aboard. A Seabee and an Army technical sergeant, both on their way to ailing wives...