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They soon had a job to do. German dive-bombers, from the coasts and airdromes of nearby Norway, screamed down through the snow. German destroyers and submarines, from the fjords and ports of lower Norway, attacked with shells and torpedoes. The Trinidad holed a German destroyer. The Eclipse stopped another dead in its sudden charge, but had to run when two more enemy destroyers appeared...
...Jack let fly anyway. When he grew up he studied chemistry and aeronautical engineering. A double mastoid operation in childhood almost kept him out of the Navy's air school at Pensacola, but his hearing was normal and he squeezed in. His weak eardrums were twice ruptured during dive-bombing practice. They healed. Last summer Newkirk married a Michigan girl; she took a defense job in California when he went to the Far East with the A.V.G...
...Italians claimed that they sank a British cruiser, damaged 19 ships in all. Berlin said that German dive-bombers had sunk three merchant ships and damaged three others. Correspondents Grover and Mowrer confirmed the British reports that one supply ship was sunk, that a cruiser and three destroyers were hit but made port. Able Admiral Vian had earned the thanks of Winston Churchill, the praise of his captains. Said one of them: "Our Admiral has fought one of the most brilliant actions against greatly superior forces ever successfully brought...
...Well, we were short of pilots and we had a dive-bomber we had to abandon to Jap strafers. So we told this Dutch pilot he could have it. Mind you, he had never flown one before. But the Dutchman's face lit up like the South Seas' full moon. He took only 20 minutes' instructions, and then said he was ready to have the gasoline tanks and bomb bays filled because it was getting late and he had a date at dawn with some Jap transports. He took off to the north, leaving only an exhaust...
...yard free styles; Captain-elect Bill Drucker in the 150 yard backstroke and the 300 yard Medley Relay; Bus Curwen in the Medley Relay; John Eusden in the Medley relay and the 50 and 100 yard free styles; Brad Patterson and Shaw McCutcheon in the high board fancy dive; and Dave Barnes and George Christman in the 1500 meter free style...