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...human hero of World War II ever received a more rousing welcome. River boats tootled their greetings, sailors swarmed over the decks of adjoining ships to wave and yell at her, thousands of workmen set up a cheer. A bosun piped lean Admiral Ernest J. King, COMINCH, aboard; he grimly surveyed the damage, examined the six Japanese flags painted beneath her bridge. Said he: "Well done." Said grinning Captain Mike Moran: "She's a grand ship...
...provide for every ship and base fuel, food, shells, radios, detecting equipment, chewing gum, bosun's pipes-everything for existence, everything for fighting. (To insure deliveries Calhoun commands fighting ships assigned to escort convoys...
Admiral King also got a Chief of Staff (for the fleet). Rear Admiral Russell Willson, to take more work off his hands. Navymen knew that "Rey" King did not give a Bosun's curse for old Navy tradition. If any ranker in the Navy could make them pop, things would now pop. And COMINCH King (who changed the abbreviation from CINCUS) finally had the popper all to himself...
Walter Sorensen heard the story of the original Reuben James. They said he was born in Delaware in the big year, 1776. He went to sea just like anybody and got to be a bosun's mate. In the fighting against the pirates of Tripoli in 1804, he did his big deed. There was a fierce hand-to-hand fight one day. James's boss, Captain Stephen Decatur, was knocked down by a Tripolitan. Another pirate lifted his scimitar to kill the Captain. James dived and took the blow on the back of the head. Captain Decatur said...
After 38 hours in the water five men clinging to the jury raft had to be dragged aboard the dinghy. On the third night of drifting without food or water, they sighted a ship. The first mate took out his bosun's whistle and "blew and blew and blew for some twenty minutes. It was that tiny whistle that made the Italian rescue ship [Provvidenza] change her course and head for us. They let down a rope ladder, but we all had to be helped to be dragged up. Whiskey and wine were given to the men. Auntie...