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...Navy Wives Club meets on Tuesday and Thursday at 1400 of each week on the second deck of the Harvard Union. Tuesday, the meeting is set aside for talks by prominent people. Thursday, the meeting is for an afternoon of Bridge and Ten. Tell your wife about this club and ask her to attend the meetings...
...natives are all very good gamblers and they were on the deck of the ship shooting crap. In very good English you would hear them say "shoot five dollars" or "you're faded." They knew everything about a crap game...
Battle Bred. In a quiet moment of the noisy Gilberts affair, John decided to take a shower on the Liscome Bay, had just soaped himself when the little carrier was torpedoed. Naked as a new chick, he made his way through the shattered carrier to the flight deck. (The Liscome Bay was afire from stem to stern, sinking in a sea of blazing oil.) John jumped overboard. Badly burned, he was finally plucked out of the ocean by a destroyer...
...Navy Wives' Tea to welcome wives of new officers at N.T.S. Harvard will be held Tuesday, January 11, at 1445 on the second deck of Harvard Union. Address will be given by Commander M. E. Paradise, Officer in Charge of N.T.S. (Communications...
...take the Gilberts last month. Butch O'Hare "hellcatted" the island; he was the first to bring a carrier plane down on conquered Tarawa. A few nights later, off the Marshalls, Jap torpedo planes came over his flat-top again. Butch led the fighters from the deck. Flares shredded the darkness. "You take the side you want," he radiophoned his wingman. "I'll take the port," answered the wingman. "Roger!" said Butch. Tracers glowed around his plane. He sheered off, brought down one Jap, his ninth, then dropped into the night. Butch O'Hare was "missing...