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...from Washington, released yesterday by Professor A. James Casner's Student War Service Information Bureau, makes it possible for upperclassmen studying Physics or Engineering Science to finish their valuable training in the field of electronics and then receive commissions as 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Signal Corps or as Ensign Volunteer Special Service in the Navy, Professor Casner's statement follows...
...Junior or Senior having the educational background and meeting the physical requirements may be placed on probationary status as an ensign pending the completion of his course of study...
...Ensign Thomas Quimby '40, a graduate of the Business School's Naval supply Corps, was aboard the naval tanker U.S.S. Neches, sunk recently by an enemy submarine. He reached port safely, his parents in Grand Rapids, Michigan revealed yesterday...
Back in the wardroom, we felt like a quiet celebration. It was our first sub of the day, and our first big one in some days. . . . Someone suggested a bridge game. We started it-our first in nearly three months. My partner, a young ensign from Chicago, maneuvered expertly until the bid was seven spades, doubled and redoubled. He laid down his hand-13 spades...
...Navy had its heroes. A swift motor torpedo boat commanded by Lieut. John D. Bulkeley slipped into Subic Bay one night and sank a 5,000-ton Jap ship, got away clean. A week later Bulkeley returned, this time in a torpedo boat commanded by Ensign George Cox, to knock off another 5,000-tonner. Meanwhile more than 200 miles north of Manila a band of Philippine guerrillas burst from the hills and slashed at a Jap airdrome at Tuguegarao on Northern Luzon. They reported (presumably by radio to Corregidor) that they had killed no Japs, routed 300 more...