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...week and that is partly the reason I didn't write sooner. They came out with a final announcement on the REGIMENTAL BALL to be held on the 23rd of June at the Statler with liberty until 0200. . . . On July 4th the Regiment will take over the entire main deck of the POPS concert. Beer and stuff will be served at the tables as usual and with a bit of encouragement the GLEE CLUB may even give out with a few numbers. . . The Welfare Office has put a plan into effect whereby all the officers on the station and their...
...teacher, teaching gym: "If getting on deck at 5 a.m. is a sacrifice (which I doubt), I'm making...
White-knuckled Nazis, ignoring their ship' last moment, were clinging to the Spencer's ropes. The first taken aboard flopped on the deck, shivering uncontrollably in his wet clothes. Another merely clung to a line, moaning and making no effort to help himself. "Hold your water, bub, we'll save you," said a seaman, as he was lowered over the side to give a hand. From either side desolate, streaming figures were fished from the water. One gasped a weak "Heil Hitler" and an angry seaman threatened him with an oar. Wet, exhausted, stripped of their sodden...
...Prisoners. Next day six German officers paced the wet, misty quarter-deck while armed guards stood by. All six were over 5 ft. 8, sturdily built, healthy-looking without any trace of the fatigue or pallor that comes from malnutrition or too lengthy duty on submarines. The U-boat's captain had been killed, so the executive officer had become their commander. He marched first in line on their daily turns around the quarterdeck. Whatever the leader did, the rest did. When they halted in the lee of a gun shelter to light cigarets, he got the first match...
Until this week few knew that Enterprise played an important part in the Doolittle raid on Tokyo. She met the carrier Hornet in the Western Pacific, and provided air cover for the task force's final approach to the Japanese mainland. Hornet had her flight deck cluttered with Doolittle's big B-25 bombers, and would have been unable to get her fighter planes up to fend off a sudden enemy air attack...