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...pilot from Hudson, N.Y., volunteered to try a rescue. It was the sort of mission Koelsch liked: he had voluntarily passed up rotation home after a long tour of combat duty because he felt that his rescue work was urgently needed. In the gathering dusk Lieut. Koelsch and his crewman, Aviation Machinist's Mate George M. Neal, took off, without fighter escort, to look for Wilkins...
...their speed. All ports were closed against the high following seas, and sleep was almost impossible for the watch below. Boiling ahead of the trade winds, the white-hulled yacht climbed wave crests and planed down like a surfboard. The mainsail boom sliced dangerously through the sea. One night Crewman Bob Carlson dreamed that a mast fitting had broken and dumped the boom overboard. He awoke, went on deck and found that the fitting of his dream had indeed worked loose. A bit more stress and the boom could have gone to complete the nightmare...
Promising Possibility. Only a day before Ike traveled to Boston for a foreign-policy speech, Russian MIGs stationed in the Kurile Islands shot down a U.S. B-29 photo-mapping plane off the coast of Japan, killing one crewman. The President acknowledged the provocation, but insisted in his speech that "the possibility of permanent peace is more promising than in any time in recent years." He was not succumbing to the notion that the Communists are reforming. The prospects for peace are stronger, he said, because the free world had strengthened itself through a plan to rearm Germany, a Pacific...
...yawl Baruna was built by the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard. For a picture of Nevins' Llanoria, on which Reader Roosevelt sailed as a crewman when she won her Seawanhaka trophy...
...from one cruise to retire for life. But there is also the story of the skipper who spent two years at sea and returned to tell his owners: "We didn't get a single goddam barrel of oil, but we had a goddam fine sail." For the average crewman the money rewards were trifling. All he could look forward to with certainty was maggoty food, cramped and filthy quarters, brutal whippings if he complained, and, since casualties were high, a good chance that he would get sea burial. Officers who died were sometimes kept aboard and brought home...