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...Yorktown did not sink. Buckmaster ordered tugs and salvage vessels. The next day 160 picked men reboarded the carrier. They worked all night pumping out holds and cutting guns from the lower side. The destroyer Hammann was standing by to furnish power for the pumps. The next noon a Jap sub launched two torpedoes into the carrier's weakened plates and sank the destroyer with two more. The concussion broke several men's feet. Lieut. Commander Ernest Davis was blown overboard. Many men had broken arms and legs. The explosion made a hole in the Yorktown...
...quick-zooming, vulnerable Jap Zero* fighter is a triumph for the world's greatest adapters. How the underestimated little single-motored plane could get away with such power and maneuverability was a mystery for several weeks after Pearl Harbor. U.S. aviators soon found part of the answer (and made the most of it): no armor protection for pilot or self-sealing fuel tanks, therefore less weight. The rest of the story has come out gradually from examination of shot-down Zeros...
...Jap planes are numbered according to the last two digits of the year they were produced. In the Japanese calendar...
First star was the sailor: Gunner's Mate Second Class Mel Van Keuren, wounded at Pearl Harbor, where he was the first man to bag a Jap plane. He had studio telephone operators put through a call to a nurse named Rosella Nesgis, in Pearl Harbor. It seems that while nursing Sailor Van Keuren's wounds, Rosella had also read him his favorite comic strips. Hopping to the phone, he blurted happily to her: "I never look at Popeye without thinking...
...that MacArthur's air force in Australia has had many obstacles to contend with-including deficiencies in the quality and number of planes available. But it also has by & large no outstanding record for getting results. Its most obvious failure was in not successfully interfering with the Jap landing at Buna (TIME, Aug. 3), the landing which resulted in last week's threat to Port Moresby...