Word: commando
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Circle of Danger (Joan Harrison; United Artists) sets Ray Milland down in Britain as an American who suspects that his brother's wartime death in a Commando raid was really the result of foul play. Milland's hunt for the killer takes him to the Welsh coal pits, the highlands of Scotland, the English countryside, the streets of London. The tour has genuine atmosphere, but the story lacks pace and imagination, and gains no lift from Mil-land's romantic side trip with Britain's Patricia...
...their periscopes, of torpedoing a new Jap carrier as it slid down the ways, of receiving as many as 400 and 500 depth charges. Subs became the work horses of the fleet: they rescued 504 downed flyers, carried high-priority cargo and VIPs, charted enemy beaches before invasions, staged commando raids, acted as radio and weather stations for the Air Force. Threading their way through plodding Jap convoys, sub skippers set up targets at night on radarscopes. Then they surfaced and steamed through the panicked convoys, shotgunning torpedoes right & left...
Died. Admiral Count Luigi Rizzo di Grado, 63, one of Italy's most renowned naval heroes of World War I (only holder of two Medaglie d'Oro, highest Italian war decoration); of a lung ailment; in Rome. In December 1917, Rizzo and a small commando force sneaked into Trieste's harbor, cut the torpedo nets, then returned with small boats to sink Austria's battleship Wien, next year equaled the feat by torpedoing the Szent-Istvan...
During World War II, Lieut. Per Edvard Danielsen's swashbuckling sea-raids against the Nazis made him something of a national hero. In 1941, as skipper of a motor torpedo boat, he helped strike one of the first blows against the Quisling government, in a Commando raid from Britain against Norway's Nazi-occupied island base of Maaloy...
...Harvard testers believe that their technique can be adapted to measure a man's aptitude for dangerous, "stressful" assignments of many kinds, e.g., commando duty. Men who become exhausted after a rugged route march, but without a proportionate eosinophil drop, would be eliminated as dangerously hormone poor...