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Fire and Fish. At 7:15 the lookout reported planes. Berlin started back toward the cockpit; it was already too late. The only thing he could do was lie down, so he stretched out on deck and calmly gave an order: "All right, general quarters." The port gunner, a blond youngster named Richard Dudziak, started to fire into the engine of an approaching plane. It looked like an American SBD but the location of two blue-burning exhausts meant a Jap torpedo plane. As the plane passed over, Skipper Berlin could almost reach and touch the red ball...
...other ships were. A red blinker flashed in the night; it was the LCI calling for aid. Skipper Berlin ran his ship alongside. After a hasty conference the LCI's skipper ordered "abandon ship" and men poured over the side onto the Who, Me?'s flat wooden deck...
...terse message went back to the task unit's flagship, the U.S.S. Card, an unarmored merchant ship equipped with an aircraft landing deck: "Scratch one pig-boat-am searching for more." The Borie found another huge pigboat on the surface. Cried a signalman: "My God, what is it, the Bremen?" In ten to 30 seconds the Bone's guns swept the sub's deck. The destroyer leaped forward to ram, went partly over, her bow straddling the U-boat's forward deck. There she stuck. For ten feverish minutes the Borie poured metal from...
...ammunition). The bullets are made in a secret area where visitors are barred and all workers must wear a special uniform. Neatest trick yet performed with the projectile: destroying a Japanese cargo vessel. U.S. flyers did that by dropping their belly fuel tanks on the ship's deck, then raking them with blue geese. The ship burned briskly...
Having completed under the accelerated schedule what was formerly four years' naval training, those men will be qualified for deck duty as junior line officers, and are also to receive College degrees in the coming graduation exercises...