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...Heinkel roared out of an overcast Norwegian sky. It was the evening of June 5, 1940. The submarine Clyde of the Royal Navy (1,500 tons displacement, surface speed 22 knots) was on the surface, recharging her batteries. Able to travel thousands of miles without refueling, she was patrolling the North Sea. As the Clyde plunged into the protecting vault of ocean, she was sprayed with bullets and cannon shells, her steel-hided bridge pierced in three places. The Clyde could no longer surface to recharge her batteries in safety: from now on the area would be patrolled...
...welcome the new officers, but should he be unable to appear, his representative will be on hand. Colonel William S. Wood, of the Army Training Schools, Harvard University, will give a brief address to the men on the responsibilities of their new duties. It is hoped that Colonel Clyde V. Finter, Commanding Officer of our immediate Headquarters will be able to attend to give one of his customary fine messages to the graduating officers...
...SERGEANT CLYDE WILSON...
Strike up the band, mates ... we have added to the roster, muster, or what have you ... one Guilfoyle, one Cahill, and one Clyde Fuller. 1-34 is proud to have you with us ... you possess the necessary requisite of a sense of humor without which one is person non grata ... (what the heck does that mean anyhow?) ... Combination question and suggestion ... isn't there something we could offer to do to help out over to Chelsea, such as reading aloud to some of the lads of a Sunday or something similar? After all they're Navy men and shipmates...
Streamliner. An ex-Governor and ex-Senator from Iowa, Clyde LaVerne Herring, will prune deadwood from OPA. Clyde Herring's first chore will be a top-to-bottom survey of OPA. Separate price, rent and rationing control offices may be combined, the eight regional offices may be erased. Clyde Herring will look for ways to consolidate service, eliminate waste...