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...Southern California (purchase price $3,000,000, improvements $20,000,000) had become a profitable combination of poor man's Nassau and rich man's Coney Island. Last week, when the U.S. Maritime Service opened its second largest training station for merchant seamen on Catalina's crescent-shored Avalon bay, only the shape of the island remained as William Wrigley left...
...thrill-loving tourists, for the great, near-great and notorious, Catalina had been nepenthe. President Harding was enroute there when he died in San Francisco. Winston Churchill fished for marlin off the island in 1929. Aboard his yacht, Errol Flynn allegedly was host to 15-year-old Peggy Satterlee, sailing from Catalina to San Pedro...
With the war, tourist business fell away, then was halted altogether. Catalina lay in a restricted war zone with only one customer-the U.S. Government. By August 1942, the normal summer population of 10,000 had dwindled to 1,500. Last week, 600 newly arrived Maritime Service trainees completed Catalina's wartime conversion...
...Navy's big Catalina flying boats crossed and recrossed the vast area where he might have gone down. After 23 endless days they spotted a raft: on it was the bomber's pilot, Captain William T. Cherry Jr. The Navy searched even harder. Next day the good news came: Rickenbacker and two of his crew were found floating in the vast Pacific some 600 miles north of Samoa. Three other crew members were on a tiny island. One, Sergeant Alexander Kaczmarczyk of Torrington, Conn., had died and been buried...
...Japanese naval and air base 600 miles northeast of Port Moresby, 700 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. For once, he had enough planes: more Fortresses than anyone had ever had before in the Southwest Pacific. For once, the raid was well planned. First the Australians went over Rabaul in their Catalina flying boats, loosed their bombs shortly after midnight. Then, about 4 a.m. when the Japs were comfortably in bed again, the Fortresses began coming...