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...starting lineup for the Crimson was Harshman, g.; Purinton, r.f.; Merck, l.f.; Mavor, r.h.; Ogden, c.h.; Blanco, l.h.; Smith, o.r.; Morse, i.r.; Potter, c.f.; Lazarus, i.l.; Corrigan, o.l. Substitutes were: Cate, Seamans, Chun, Louris, Carswell, Dawson, Ragle, Ensign, Malcolm, and Forster...
...commissioned an ensign, served ten months as a gunnery officer on Atlantic and Mediterranean convoys. Later, in the Solomons, he nearly lost an arm when his jeep overturned. When he recovered he got a job as press censor at Sydney. Scripps-Howard tried to spring him out of the Navy after Ernie Pyle died; luckily for Ruark, he stayed in, and was spared the ordeal of trying to follow in Pyle's footsteps (TIME...
...crew of the ship ever saw was the captain. Though they didn't know it, they were lucky in a way to have him. He gave them a focus for their resentment. The captain's chief competition came, for a while, from a young ensign fresh from midshipman's school. This boy, the "boot ensign" who took "indoctrination" seriously, was a luckless type in the Naval Reserve. Author Heggen writes of him sympathetically...
Tuttle, son of William P. Tuttle, served as an ensign in the Navy and planned to attend the University of California this fall...
...Elizabete (2,039 tons) put an eager working party and four towlines aboard the Farmer, ran up the British Merchant Navy ensign. When the Ranger came up, the Elizabete's skipper signaled: "Hands off-this prize is mine...