Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have the very distinct impression that the first man in World War II to win the Congressional Medal was a Negro aboard one of the ships at Pearl Harbor when the Japs attacked. Did I dream it, or did a Negro perform one of the outstanding feats of heroism at Pearl Harbor? If I didn't dream it, who was the man, and where can I find the details of what happened and what honors the man received...
...wave excitedly at an old dragon. Joined by Oregon's Republican maverick, Wayne Morse, McMahon presented a resolution: the Foreign Relations Committee should spend $50,000 to find out whether any attempt had been made by any group representing Nationalist China to influence U.S. foreign policy since Pearl Harbor...
Comet was started as a die-casting shop in 1919 by the Slonim brothers' immigrant father. When the two sons came into the business during the mid-'30s, they parlayed their hobby of toy soldiers into a profitable sideline. Three days after Pearl Harbor, Comet got its first Government order, made 50,000 model warships for the Navy. In 1943, its peak year, it turned out more than $2,000,000 in models for the Government, everything from a ½-in. U.S. infantryman in full battle dress (price: $1.85 a dozen) to a complicated submarine with a finished...
...transports arrive, the frogmen mine the concrete and steel traps with lung-bursting patience, blast them out of the path of the assault troops. Donning rubber suits and shoulder-fitted oxygen tanks, they give the picture its most gripping sequence by slipping through the steel net of a Japanese harbor to mine its submarine pens. For good measure, the movie tosses in a tense situation aboard the frogmen's destroyer (commanded by Gary Merrill), when Widmark and Andrews undertake the ticklish job of disarming an unexploded Japanese torpedo that has pierced the ship's hull...
...Good. Off Honolulu, after sailing singlehanded the 2,500 miles from San Francisco, Salesman John Riley ran into heavy seas at the harbor entrance, was rescued by the Coast Guard...