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Kind Commander. A black-hulled U-boat, its conning tower decorated with a goat insignia, surfaced near two seamen swimming amid wreckage from their torpedoed cargo ship. Hauled aboard, Cornelius O'Connor, 19, and Raymond Smithson, 24, were given a tin cupful of rum by a fat officer in the conning tower. Suddenly a U.S. patrol plane appeared in the distance. O'Connor and Smithson were pushed down into the control room while the U-boat made a crash dive. Blindfolded, they were marched toward the torpedo room, where German seamen sponged off the oil coating the rescued...
...Moscow zoo. Jap and American diplomats played tennis in courts within a racket's throw of each other. The ballet performed every night. There was a superb performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride before an audience of airmen wearing their wing-&-propeller insignia, tank soldiers, "intellectuals" and factory hands munching black bread at intermission time...
...secondary metal would often do just as well. The Navy still insists upon top-grade primary aluminum for cable cases, fire-control boxes, etc. In copper, there is an actual surplus of secondary metal on the market, while painfully short virgin metal is still insisted upon for belts and insignia, laundry equipment, whistles, zippers...
Some of the pilots, some of the mechanics, radiomen and other groundmen who made up the Group donned the khaki with winged insignia of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Some were already headed home. For some of these, the end had not been altogether pleasant. General Chennault at first had not looked kindly on their going, although he later relented. Two-thirds of the A.V.G.'s pilots had come out of the U.S. Navy, and they did not relish going into the Army any more than the Navy liked the Army's bid for them. But for those...
Bedecked with the armbands of Civilian Defense volunteers, wearing the insignia of their organizations, or carrying placards illustrating Harvard's contributions to the war effort, the College's contingent in Boston's "I Am an American" Day parade will leave en masse from in front of the Coop at 1 o'clock tomorrow...