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Also missing in the Southwest Pacific this week was Lieut. Colonel Thomas J. Lynch, Army pilot from Catasauqua, Pa., who had rolled up 20 confirmed victories over the Japs. But other aces were carrying on; new aces were being dealt from the U.S. deck. An Air Forces report disclosed that Captain Richard R. Bong (TIME, Aug. 9), famed Lightning pilot, had boosted his score to 25, pressing hard on the high mark of 26 shared by Marine Majors Joe Foss and Gregory Boyington (and Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in World...
First the Tirpitz deck guards knew of the attack was when they saw periscopes breaking water off the beam. Hell broke loose in the fjord; guns thundered, a rain of rifle and machine-gun fire pattered on the small intruders...
...plea has been made for snapshots of any activities from junior class members. These printes should be submitted to the editorial offices, which are located on 3rd deck, Sherman Hall...
Somewhere on the high seas two U-boats caught an Allied merchant vessel and surfaced to shell it. A high-explosive burst hit squarely on the bridge. Captain Arthur William Folster, of Durban, South Africa, collapsed on his deck, riddled with shell fragments, his right arm and left leg torn...
...Marines and their artillery landed on Mellu and Boggerlapp, southwest of Roi; then on Ennugarret, Ennumennet and Ennubirr, southeast of it. Thus Roi and Namur were all but surrounded by big guns, land-based and deck-based...