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Four days later, the British freighter S.S. Balfe came upon six of the Baía's life rafts, pulled aboard the 22 miserable survivors who gave the world its first hint of the disaster. Later, other rescue vessels picked up a few more of the Baía's 400-odd crew members, landed them at the port of Recife before a crowd of solemn men and weeping women. Only a handful were saved. The survivors believed that the Baía had struck a floating mine, exploded the magazine...
Alfred E. Smith, late, longtime lover of the sidewalks of New York, was nostalgically remembered by G.I.s when the freighter bearing his name docked at Cherbourg. A burly MP asked if it was the ship containing a flagstone from the sidewalk in front of Al's old East Side home. Told that it was, he climbed aboard, reverently placed his foot on the stone. Next day some 200 New Yorkers in his outfit visited the ship-to see, touch, kiss their native "soil...
...again, on-again Gunder ("The Wunder") Hägg finally arrived in the U.S. last week. He did not swim over, as Manhattan newsmen had been suggesting he must be doing, during their month-long vigil at the docks; the speedy Swede came on a slow freighter, and he had sore feet from training-trots he made on the boat's steel decks...
...again, but there were fewer parked aircraft, and many loosed their bombs and bullets at inviting fixed targets: an aircraft factory and three engine plants. Along the waterfront were floating targets, choicest of all in Navy flyers' estimation: they sank a destroyer, two destroyer escorts, a freighter and many coastal craft; an escort carrier was fired and overturned...
...Year's Eve 1941 Mydans elected to stay behind in burning Manila while TIME'S other correspondent in the Philippines, Melville Jacoby, took off on a little island freighter to follow the action across the bay to Bataan and Corregidor. Two days later Mydans and his wife Shelley were herded with some 3,500 other Americans into the internment camp at Santo Tomas University. They spent the next 21 months as prisoners of the Japs...