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...World War II the U.S. and Brazilian navies fought together against Nazi subs and raiders. The U.S. Fourth Fleet operated out of Brazilian harbors; the Brazilian navy, strengthened by the assignment of eight U.S. destroyer-escorts, carried out valuable convoy duties in the South Atlantic...
...Decks. Radford's first duty after graduation was on the battleship South Carolina, which had only one Atlantic convoy job and was otherwise used for training. When the Navy sent out its first postwar call for academy graduates to take flight training at Pensacola, Radford jumped at the chance, and might have gotten into the first Pensacola class if his ship had not been in Honduras. He made the second class, and got his "bird" (pilot's wings) as Naval Aviator No.2896...
Apparently Sobell planned to travel much farther-perhaps to Russia. But last week his travel plans were altered. Picked up on a deportation order, he was whisked across the border before dawn one morning by a mysterious convoy of Mexican secret service agents and deposited at the U.S. border station in Laredo, Texas. There, dumpy, dark-eyed Morton Sobell, 33, his black hair disheveled and his undershirt ballooning from his trousers, was arrested by waiting agents of the FBI as a spy for the Soviet Union...
Like Civil War Prints. General Walker appeared in his fast-moving, heavily armed, two-jeep convoy and ordered the attack speeded up. A U.S. night attack-hitherto a North Korean specialty-helped. As enemy frontal resistance lessened, headquarters spokesmen in Tokyo talked confidently of U.S. "pursuit," of an enemy "rout." This was an exaggeration. The forward speed of the U.S. drive was painfully slow and enemy pockets on the flanks had to be rooted out laboriously...
Fielder joined the ground forces in Korea, went up to Taejon. Last week, as the burning city fell to the Communists, a convoy of U.S. vehicles fought its way out, under orders to stop for no one. According to the driver of one jeep, Wilson Fielder was riding in the back seat with a G.L, when a burst of machine-gun fire hit them both and knocked them out of the jeep. Obeying orders, the driver said, he kept going...