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...dense fog somewhere off the St. Lawrence last week the Canadian destroyer Assiniboine, her starboard deck ablaze, rammed and sank a German sub after twelve hours of close-range fighting on the surface. The Canadians saw the Nazi commander killed in his conning tower by a 4.7-inch shell. As the battered Assiniboine closed in to ram, one of its depth charges landed directly on the sub's narrow deck, rolled off, and exploded beneath the surface. The surviving Germans surrendered and were rescued (see cut) as their seawolf sank. The U-boat was, perhaps, the one whose badly...
Crews worked frantically to control the fire and patch the twisted deck. But more Jap planes caught up with the limping carrier...
...program, the V-1 classification has been sub-divided into V-1 (G), deck and engineering classification, and V-1 (S), for specialists. A reduction in eye requirements from 18/20 to 12/20 correctible to 20/20 has been made for those in V-1 (S). Premedical students entering either of these two categories are exempt from the normally required physics and math. They need not take the qualifying exam of the Sophomore year, and, if they do not, will be retained in class V-1 until accepted or rejected from medical school...
...Wakefield could no longer be distinguished within her shroud of smoke and steam. But messages beep-beeping from the sparks' cabins aboard the cruiser and the destroyers told the story. "The engines are still okay. Fire hasn't got below B deck. The captain (Coast Guard Commander Harold Gardner Bradbury) thinks it will burn out the superstructure...
Minutes later fire had swept down from B deck toward the magazine, but Bradbury stubbornly refused to abandon ship. The next message conceded the fire out of control. "They are abandoning ship." Flames scorched the blistered rescue ships. But in the glare and with submarine-taunting searchlights stabbing through the smoke the last of the fire fighters were taken aboard rescue craft...