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...sinking our squawkbox sounded: 'Jap snooper is closing.' One cruiser opened fire with two destroyers joining. ... At 9:50 p.m. the squawkbox said: 'A group of planes is closing. They are dropping float lights. Another group is off our starboard bow, now closing...
...night last week, in rain hard-driven by an icy wind, a shipfitter, an insurance salesman, a machinist supervisor and a Boston Traveler pressman boarded a 50-ft. cruiser and purred out to patrol Boston Harbor. Their "duty" was the water off the busy Navy Yard. Aboard their cruiser they stood eight-hour watches and took turns at catching a little sleep. In the cold dawn they shucked their blue work clothes, sheepskin coats, stocking caps and went back to their civilian jobs...
King stipulated, however, that no officer could be promoted to flag rank unless he had commanded a major fleet unit (battleship, carrier, heavy cruiser). Oddest working of this variable rule: Charles E. Rosendahl had to command a cruiser (and won the Navy Cross in battle) before he was deemed fit to be a rear admiral and commander of all the Navy's airships...
Opening a rather delayed rugby season, a British Navy cruiser team will be at Soldiers Field tomorrow to challenge a green Harvard team which can boast of only four experienced players. The remainder of the Crimson fifteen have been on the practice field for less than four weeks...
...service in France in World War I, his second (Gold Star) for his work as commander of all aviation units on Guadalcanal in the hot time from September to November 1942. In those 63 days, his command shot down 286 Jap planes, sank six enemy ships, including a heavy cruiser...