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...bullet got Wine in the head while he was still at his gun. A 20-mm. shell laid open the skipper's cheek. The nose gunner came back to help but a bullet hit the generator and it exploded and he died in the arms of Sergeant Howard Collett. Collett got out his Bible and began to read out loud: 'God so loved the world, that He gave . . .' Then a bullet hit Collett in the stomach...
...three years the London Times Educational Supplement and the Supplement's editor, energetic, fiftyish Harold Collett Dent, have been pitching thunderbolts, helping arouse the public until Parliament is cornered. A reform program, presented to Parliament by the head of the Board of Education, would use the first seven postwar years to create a system costing ?67,400,000 more annually, a more than 50% hike in the British education budget. Some proposed reforms...
Britain's loss of the Glorious by gunfire (in battle with Scharnhorst and Gneisenau) seemed also the result of bad handling, under the Collett doctrine. He found that only "extremely bad weather" or a lucky break could enable a battleship or cruiser to close with a carrier...
Carrierman to the core, Commander Collett probed deeper, came up with a doctrine in flat opposition to the conviction of most high-ranking naval officers that there is still substantial need for the battleship. Of Midway, one of the decisive battles of world history, he wrote...
From the battle of Midway, Commander Collett drew these conclusions...