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...Long-memoried Reader Anderson is thinking of Doris ("Dorie") Miller, messman aboard the battleship Arizona, who on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941 dashed to the bridge, helped carry his mortally wounded captain to a place of greater safety, then manned a machine gun and blasted away at Jap planes until his ammunition ran out. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz pinned a Navy Cross on Miller in 1942 for ''distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard of his own personal safety." Two years later, heroic Doric Miller was lost...
They called themselves "the silent service" and their exploits were inscribed in greasy logbooks and terse messages ("Sturgeon no longer virgin") radioed back to COMSUBPAC headquarters at Pearl Harbor. From their voyages came stories of watching horse races in Tokyo Bay through their periscopes, of torpedoing a new Jap carrier as it slid down the ways, of receiving as many as 400 and 500 depth charges. Subs became the work horses of the fleet: they rescued 504 downed flyers, carried high-priority cargo and VIPs, charted enemy beaches before invasions, staged commando raids, acted as radio and weather stations...
...soldier, second Dominion man (after Jan Smuts) to attain field marshal rank; after long illness; in Melbourne. After a spell as Deputy Commander in Chief in the Middle East during World War II, he brought his rugged Australian "desert rats" back to the Southwest Pacific, mopped up Jap-infested islands that were bypassed in the Allied advance...
...story largely in terms of a Texas-proud lieutenant (Van Johnson) whose Nisei men gradually overcome his prejudice against them. At the climax, the 442nd's rescue of a trapped battalion of the 36th (Texas) Infantry Division in France's Vosges Mountains, even Johnson's diehard, Jap-hating buddy (Don Haggerty) takes the Nisei to his bosom...
...Life Begins at 40. The Barb's skipper, Lieut. Commander Eugene Fluckey, knew that a fat Jap convoy had holed up in Namkwan Harbor on the China coast opposite Formosa. Gene Fluckey and his crew "cased the joint." Going in, the Barb was going to have to take its chances with the enemy minefields; going out, Fluckey figured he would slither through an area marked "rocks" and "unexplored" on his chart. That way, the Barb would be an hour's run from safe diving depth, and it might make deep water if, as Fluckey hoped, the Jap escort...