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Twenty-five-year-old Henry Morgenthau III, elder son of the Secretary of the Treasury, quit his job with FHA in Cleveland to join the Army. Brother Robert, 22, is an ensign on a destroyer...
...life raft bumping the waves of the Windward Passage near Haiti looked no bigger than a cork when the Catalina patrol plane first sighted it; but when Ensign Francis E. Pinter eased his ship down to 200 ft., he could make out 17 people crowded upon it. To attempt a landing in such a choppy sea was a risky business for a plane that was toting a pair of depth charges, beaching gear, and a crew of eight, but Ensign Pinter figured that the plane had burned 300 gallons of gas since it left San Juan, Puerto Rico, was therefore...
Hoping to sight a sub (and sink same) in the Windward Passage, Ensign Pinter did not want to jettison his bombs. But on the take-off he was sorely tempted to let them go. Said his report last week...
...Ensign Louis C. Clark '40, a United States Navy flier has been killed in action, his wife was informed by a telegraph from the Navy Department No further details were given...
...Distinguished Flying Cross, Donald Mason repeated the performance: a neat straddle on a surfaced sub that blew it to bits. Last week he got a Silver Star, equivalent of another D.F.C. He also made the biggest leap in a Navy man's career. He was commissioned an ensign, went out to prowl for more subs, more promotion...