Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medals brought the number of existing U.S. decorations to about 50, most of which are campaign medals (Cuban Occupation, Mexican Border, World War Victory Medal), some of which are not very distinctive (Defense Bar, open to anyone in service before last Dec. 7) and a few which are highly prized...
...picture's message is that the Navy is not just a lot of equipment, but the men who man it. The trouble is that in this show the men are mostly a crew of waterlogged cinemactors. There is a gallant young Cuban (Desi Arnaz) who recites: "Your contry made my contry free, now I make your contry free." There is a comedy gob, his mouth all corners, who keeps tuning in on the Dodgers, though any radio aboard would have been sealed* before the Sybil Gray sailed. There is a radio-tinker on whose set the Nazi code...
There were other bases for the accusations. Recently the Cuban Government arrested an Axis agent who confessed that he had been in direct radio contact with submarines operating in the Caribbean and Middle Atlantic. He also admitted contact with agents in Chile...
Florida to Bangalore. It was Florida real estate that led him-with Pawley luck and Pawley supersalesmanship-into aviation. After selling some airfields to the old Curtis-Wright Flying Service, he bootstrapped himself into the vice president's chair of a Cuban flying service. He finally sold out at a sweet profit to Pan American Airways which just then was getting a start in Latin America...
...shakedown cruise in the Pacific in time to start a 14,700-mile dash to the Atlantic to fight the Spanish Fleet. She almost foundered in the storm-racked Magellan Strait. She had no time to have her boiler cleaned, her bottom scraped. And she arrived off the Cuban coast just in time to wade into the Battle of Santiago...