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Died. Rear Admiral Bruce McCandless, 56, Congressional Medal of Honor winner in World War II; of multiple sclerosis; in Washington, D.C. As a 31-year-old lieutenant commander on the cruiser San Francisco in a battle off Guadalcanal in November 1942, Mc-Candless was knocked unconscious by a direct hit, recovered to find that all his superior officers were either dead or dying, took command of the fleet flagship himself and so boldly attacked the superior Japanese forces that a major U.S. naval victory resulted as the San Francisco alone disabled a battleship and sank a destroyer...
...order was issued after the five Sullivan brothers of Waterloo, Iowa, were lost aboard the torpedoed light cruiser U.S.S. Juneau. By coincidence, Captain Wes Gebert, who presided at John's induction, was on a nearby ship and saw the Juneau go down...
...seater Excalibur, custom-made in Milwaukee, is a fiber-glass replica of the 1927-29 Mercedes-Benz SSK, fitted onto a Studebaker Cruiser chas sis and propelled by a 350-h.p. Corvette engine. Sonny's model set him back about $10,000, which is cheap considering that the Excalibur is the car-of-the-month in Hollywood, and that, furthermore, owning the car-of-the-month wins nearly as many prestige points these days as punching Frank Sinatra in the gush...
Because of overconfidence and heavy cloud cover, the Japanese failed to spot and strike the carriers Hornet and Enterprise, whose planes ultimately hit and sank the Hiryu and the cruiser Mikuma. Though a Japanese submarine later finished off the York town, Yamamoto knew that he had lost and called off the invasion. Japan's main fleet never again sortied in full force...
...planned visit, De Gaulle made it clear that he was coming to see Quebec, more than the nation celebrating its centennial year. Rather than travel first to the federal capital of Ottawa, De Gaulle landed at the French possession of St. Pierre, 15 miles off Newfoundland, and sailed by cruiser up the St. Lawrence River to Quebec City-refusing to fly the Canadian flag as protocol dictates...