Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy, like the British Navy (see p. 16), has some attractions which the Army cannot offer. Scooting back & forth to the Spanish coast on independent duty the U. S. S. Cruiser Raleigh has recently used as its supply base the little French Riviera port of Villefranche, hard by Nice. That seamen of the Raleigh had not overlooked the opportunity thus given them for relieving the tedium of duty was last week indicated when the mayor of Villefranche married four members of the Raleigh crew to four good-natured French girls in one afternoon...
...these reports was there any eyewitness corroboration. From the windows of the two hotels could be seen the placid bosom of the Whangpoo, and lying at anchor in midstream a line of foreign warships, prominent among them the elderly Japanese cruiser Idumo, flagship of lynx-eyed Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Japanese commander-in-chief at Shanghai. While newshawks were still discussing their crop of rumors the antiaircraft batteries of the Idumo crashed into action. Somebody looked at a watch. It was exactly...
...Leftist freighter Andutz-Mendi, set it ablaze. Up the mast scrambled a sailor to hoist his shirt as a flag of surrender, had his head blown off by a freakish hit of one of the submarine's projectiles. Freakish too was the escape of the Rightist sea-raiding cruiser Almirante Cervera. She was caught by a Leftist air squadron which rained some 20 bombs, some so close that spray from their splashes spattered her decks, but zig-zagging frantically she opened up with her anti-aircraft batteries, escaped...
...Dean, young petty officer on the cruiser Baton Rouge, was a Texas-born, square-faced, blue-eyed, accomplished sailor who liked "rough weather and lots of hell." In quieter moments he wrote for adventure magazines, read everything from Kipling to Marcus Aurelius. Coming into Bremerton Navy Yard on April 6, 1917, having known since the Baton Rouge left Mexico that war was not far off, Rex had already got himself straight about his own part in it. Uncle Sam was "Uncle Sucker." From now on you only pretended the Allies were in the right, and killed and got killed automatically...
...landing and if the weather was good. But a Navy flying boat that set out from Hawaii was turned back by a severe, freakish ice storm. Then came the first faint radio signals, which soon were reported by amateurs in Cincinnati, Wyoming, San Francisco and Seattle, by the British cruiser Achilles in the South Pacific, by Pan American Airways in Hawaii. Though all that could be distinguished was a faint voice saying "SOS KHAQQ!" (the plane's call letters) over & over, and there was no indication whether the plane was on land or sea, south or north of Howland...