Word: decks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS PARTY Invitations have been sent to all the children of the men stationed at N.T.S. Harvard to attend a Christmas Party Wednesday, December 22 at 14 on the second deck of the Harvard Union...
...group will sing the customary "Deck the Hall with Boughs of Holly," "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen," "Good King Wenceslas," and also several new ones, including "The Hunter," and "Now Leave Your Flocks," "Christmas Day Is Coming," an Irish carol arranged expressly for this year's Harvard-Radcliffe Choir by Ruth E. Abbott...
There is profane and swashbuckling Creed ("Burly") Burlingame, whose favorite procedure is to close with a Jap ship on the surface, damning her fire and sinking her with his deck gun. There is Roy Davenport, Burlingame's onetime executive officer, who prays devoutly, prowling beneath Jap waters with the firm belief that his torpedoes carry the benison of heaven...
...surfaced, slowly drew close to the yellow raft. Crewmen on the deck saw that the airman was sound asleep under his rubber sheet. From a distance of six feet, a subman bellowed...