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...Ensign Willett heard the lookout sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: One Less Raider | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...Ensign Willett, commander of the Navy gun crew, staggered to his feet, went to the after gun and opened fire on the smaller of the two raiders. The forward gun, under the command of the second mate, blazed away at the large raider. Other hands busied themselves with the wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: One Less Raider | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...nearly half an hour the battle raged, two raiders against one freighter. Heavily outgunned, the merchantman made every shell count. Ensign Willett saw the stern of the smaller raider burst into flame. Then a shell blew up the merchantman's main boiler, reduced her speed to one knot. A few seconds later another shell hit the magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: One Less Raider | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

DECEMBER 16--Year-round curriculum adopted by Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Freshmen to be admitted in June, 1942. Phillip Gazecki '41, naval ensign, first member of the Alumni to die in World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE'S WAR CHRONOLOGY | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

Several weeks after Mr. Churchill had left the destroyer, it was torpedoed and sunk. One of the few articles rescued front the wreck was the ensign, which Seaman Robert Sickle, shipmate of the Prime Minister and source of the tale, carried in his jacket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Churchill Used British Navy Flag for Wash Cloth | 12/3/1942 | See Source »

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