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Lieutenant Commander William J. ("Gus") Widhelm, U.S.N., was the skipper of Scouting Eight (dive-bombers) and the bigheart of the Hornet. Gus always kept five dollars in nickels so he could buy everybody cokes in the wardroom after evening general quarters. He could play badminton on the hangar deck better than anyone else. He had better luck at Bingo in the ready room than anyone else. There was always a wisecrack on his tongue, but he was a flyer's flyer. George Stokely, his radio man and gunner, called him "the crazy flying...
...order to man planes came. Gus gave his men a last summary of his theories of attack. They ran up to the flight deck and took...
...incidents, Simenon's novels never fail to show a "customary air of slow-motion absent-mindedness." But they were written-usually on his canal boat Ostrogoth)-at rates varying from four days to one month per novel. Says Simenon: "I get up at half-past five; go on deck; start typing at six, with either a bottle of brandy or white wine at my side; and write a chapter an hour until noon, when I go on land and lie down in the grass, exhausted...
...thirty A. M. is reveille for the WAVES, and as soon as they hit the deck they will proceed at full speed to the dormitory quadrangle for calisthenics. Drill will also be held there, on the traditional hockey and sun-bathing ground of the 'Cliffettes...
...next day a British destroyer located her off the tip of Cape Cod. The seas were running too high to take anyone off, but the Britisher took her in tow and headed for Halifax. But the adventures of the 3070 had only begun. Seaman Toivo Koskinen was on deck trying to rig a chafing gear when a wave swept him overboard. Another wave picked him up and swept him back. This time a shipmate grabbed him. In the blackness of night the towline snapped; the destroyer was lost to sight. The 3070 wallowed on, lost and helpless...