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After a spell of convoy duty, he boarded the light cruiser Brooklyn in October, and went to Casablanca where he experienced his baptism by fire. Operation "Torch" was then the greatest amphibious undertaking in history, and Morison was on hand to record it, in all its complexities. The captain praised him after the battle, saying, "By his alert, active, analytical work in recording the events of the action; by his keen fighting spirit . . . ;and by his calm manner he contributed to the general and overall performance of the vessel...
...even more action on the night of July 12, when his ship engaged in a skirmish as it crossed the "slot" between Guadalcanal and Bougainville. A brief review of Atlantic waters notwithstanding, he stayed in the South Pacific until the end of the year aboard the heavy cruiser Baltimore, which was involved in the capture of the Gilberts. Morison was on the ship when the carrier Liscome Bay, alongside, was torpedoed; he thus saw rescue operations in action...
With their retreat in the direction of Harvard Square cut off by the appearance of the Cambridge Police, the four suspects fied across the bridge. Due to the timely arrival of an MDC cruiser, however, they were apprehended before reaching the Boston side of the river...
...passengers (including 311 Americans) the day before Britain declared war on Nazi Germany, and she had hardly pushed into the Atlantic when Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, commanding the Nazi submarine U-30, got orders to open hostilities. It was twilight, and Lemp thought she was an armed merchant cruiser-legitimate prey...
...nothing can leach the drama out of Bismarck's 1941 breakout, her four-minute sinking of the glass-jawed battle cruiser Hood (killing all but three of the 1,419 aboard), and the oceanwide net of ships and planes that eventually closed round the battleship. In that encounter, southwest of Ireland, Bismarck proved, in fact, almost as unsinkable as her builders claimed...