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Died. William Boardman Porter, 81, for 35 years skipper of the late J. P. Morgan's fabulous yachts, Corsair III and Corsair IV, a job that made him one of the world's best paid sea captains; in Fort Lauderdale...
Lucie's husband ("descended from the corsair just as you descend a long staircase when you slip-on his backside") died years ago. And Luc La Hourie, her only son, was reported lost at sea with a Breton fishing trawler just three months after he married Françoise...
Consul Eaton, soon disgusted by the greed and eternal haggling of the Tripolitan Pasha, decided that appeasment did not pay. Instead he set up a howl for naval action. If he had his way, he stormed, the U.S. would fit out a fleet, sink every corsair on sight and "let the Pashas wreak their vengeance on the consuls- if they pleased, eat them...
...tonners, all completed since Pearl Harbor. In the carrier task force were half or more of the 27 fast carriers now in service.* There were schools of destroyers and fast-stepping cruisers. Over them, when the air strikes began, were swarms of Hellcat and Corsair fighters, Helldiver dive bombers, Avenger torpedo planes...
...fire got one. Another came in low . . . struck and swept across the deck house, knocking out some of our guns and starting fires in the 40-mm. magazine. Within 30 seconds two planes hit the afterdeck house, sealing several men to their deaths in compartments below. Just then a Corsair came chasing a Japanese right over the mainmast. The Jap took off half the yardarm and the Corsair took off the other half. The Jap crashed in the water. The Corsair pulled out with a wing damaged, shot down another plane and then crashed. Another ship rescued the pilot...