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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ankles he shoved off again, found another raft. The rest of the "Jakie" went down with a mighty explosion that tossed nearby swimmers into the air like popcorn. The sun was high in the sky when a rescue boat found the survivors: Dors and ten other enlisted men. Normal complement of the destroyer: 122 officers...
...weakness, the poetic brilliance of the second issue of Trend has both the originality and pertinence, requisite for successful undergraduate literary effort, and subscribers may rejoice that the publication has not fallen before the "Sophomore Jinx." Improved in appearance and more experimental in context, this copy is a worthy complement to its sloppier but more staid predecessor...
...Burma's west coast lies a long chain of flying fields, all the way back to Calcutta and beyond. By this route new planes were coming to be added to Burma's thin complement of bombers and U.S.-made fighters. The Allies raided Bangkok, reported they set great fires. They pounced on Jap airfields, riddling their ground establishments. In one raid near week's end, returning pilots reported they had smashed up 27 Jap planes, mostly bombers, on the ground...
...Massachusetts General also has ample space in which to set up additional beds to equal the former complement at the Huntington. There will be no reduction in the number of beds available for the care of cancer patients in the community as a result of the change...
Losses. Cecil Brown and 2,300 others out of the two battleships' complement of 2,925 were rescued by destroyers. Admiral Phillips and Captain John Catterall Leach of the Wales were drowned...