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Lieut, (j.g.) John F. Kennedy, 26-year-old son of the ex-Ambassador to Britain, was commanding a PT boat on night patrol north of New Georgia when a Jap destroyer sliced it in two. The aft portion went up in flames. Kennedy rescued two of his crewmen, clung to the bow with them and eight others for twelve hours, towed one of the men on a three-hour swim to a small island. There they lived on coconuts for three days, then swam to a larger island, where friendly natives found them the next day, carried back...
Bump Suppers. So it went for six hectic days. Then, in an orgiastic climax, the victorious colleges staged bump suppers, an occasion for all-night revelry that always ended with the climbing of college roofs and a colossal bonfire. Elated crewmen were affectionately dragged in & out of rooms, up & down stairs, until they could tilt no more...
Attrition Above. It was clear that the Luftwaffe had again increased its fighter defenses in western Europe. Allied losses went up. In eight days the R.A.F. and the U.S. Air Forces lost 185 heavy bombers. Down with them went hundreds of highly trained pilots and crewmen. Back with the surviving formations went many a damaged bomber, many a wounded airman, many a tough task for the commanders and ground crews who had to bring the battered squadrons back up to strength...
Fresh proof of their usefulness came from Allied Headquarters last week with the announcement that Staff Sergeant Grady Gaston, of Frisco City,Ala. was recovering after wandering in the wild bush country for 111 days. Gaston was one of the crewmen who bailed out of a U.S. Liberator bomber in a blinding storm on Dec. 1. Three officers with him died in the jungle ; Gaston was saved when a native found him on March...
...control of big additional air routes linking the U.S. with all Pacific battlefronts. The second is the relationship between the Army & Navy and airline operators. Pan American is still miffed because the Army abruptly took over its mushrooming Pan Africa last October (and grabbed some crack pilots and crewmen in the process), has since set up duplicating transport services in China...