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...Twins. If there is little difference in the won-lost records of the two boats, there is even less in their design. Both were drawn by Scotland's David Boyd, 61, whose first twelve was Sceptre, and who is now a sadder but wiser man. Their hulls are the product of months of tank tests, are virtually identical...
WITH her engines grinding at a rowboat's pace and her crew peering anxiously at debris in the water, the U.S. destroyer Boyd slipped in toward Japanese-held Nauru Island on the morning of Dec. 8, 1943. A U.S. fighter pilot had been- shot down within point-blank range of the island shore batteries, and the Boyd was bent on rescuing him. Suddenly, two 6-in. shells crashed into the forward .engine room, destroying half of the ship's power. Shellburst jets of water blossomed everywhere. The Boyd's skipper, Lieut. Commander Ulysses Simpson Grant Sharp...
...Navy lieutenant at the Navy Postgraduate School at Monterey, and polished his golf game to a ten-handicap shine. In mid-1942 he got a wartime command aboard a minesweeper, picked up a commendation for combat action off Casablanca, then served nearly two years on the Boyd in the Pacific. His older brother, Thomas, was also a Navyman in the war; he died in the Pacific when his submarine, Pickerel, was sunk...
...towering mountains of Latin America, the highways are few, and millions of people have never seen a railroad. The ties that bind are the air lanes. In Santíago, Chile, last week, 30 Latin American and U.S. aviation officials, including FAA Head Najeeb Halaby and CAB Chief Alan Boyd, gathered for a five-day discussion of ways to strengthen Latin America's aerial life line. Out of the meeting came an astonishing picture of aviation in a developing continent of only 220 million people...
...Alan S. Boyd is a lawyer and former Florida utilities commissioner whose tough efficiency has made him the Government's indisputable "Mr. Aviation." He has turned the CAB into one of the best-run agencies...