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...gone and he bandaged my forehead. We got orders to transfer to a destroyer and Mac practically carried me up those ropes. I was pretty weak. He put me in the sick bay and said: "You'll be all right now, Joe." Then we got dive-bombed and a big hole was blown in the sick bay. The blast blew everyone around and I just about passed out. Mac got blown to pieces. The water poured in and the backwash washed me right out through that hole. Another gunboat came steaming in and picked me up. They laid...
...Presidential threat to draft 18 and 19-year-olds was taken quite coolly by the childish Lampoon staff, according to the usual unreliable sources from the Bow Corner dive. "Few of our significant members are over 17," Oliver E. Allen '43 (social), unclassified (academic), president, announced last night at a poorly attended press conference...
...Dutch coast flew his Spitfire more than 100 miles home after it was hit by three cannon shells and 30 machine-gun bullets, with a seagull lodged in its carburetor intake. An Eagle reported: "Evading a flak, got into an uncontrolled spin, came out of it in a dive over a cluster of guns, opened fire from 200 yards, blew up an ammunition dump, pulled out of the dive, gunned army lorries and attacked a listening post on the way home. Had breakfast...
Only once again, just before the convoy reached Russia, did the enemy attack. Twenty-four dive-bombers tried to finish it. No ships were damaged. Two enemy planes were downed...
...these soaring increases is already in sight. The minima of pessimism at Chicago were an estimated 10 to 15% drop in 1943 sales for the chains, and a sickening 25% dive in tonnage volume. Reasons...