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...Navy's silent service. Silent or not, it had run its toll of sinkings to 99 Jap combat ships and 835 tankers, transports and auxiliaries. The cost: 34 U.S. submarines lost from all causes. Latest victim was the Seawolf, with a brilliant record dating back to the Java campaign...
Springtime in Darwin. Picking up fugitive flyers from Bataan and Java, including the early-famed Buzz Wagner, the Eighth and Ninth squadrons followed the Seventh northward, reaching Darwin bases in time for the big Japanese raid on April 25. In that first real baptism of fire, the Forty-niners bagged 24 Jap bombers and nine fighters without suffering a single loss. By Aug. 1, six months after arriving in Australia, they had run their score to 60, had lost only three pilots. On Aug. 12 they received a Presidential unit citation, then plunged into the battle for New Guinea...
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...Memphis Belle. Riding with him was the task-force commander, 38-year-old Brigadier General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., a veteran of the long, bitter delaying action early in the war when a handful of U.S. airmen fought and fell back from the Philippines to Java to Australia...
This week the sight's inventor, Java-born Carl L. Norden, was to be awarded the Holley Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for his invention. Meantime, the Navy announced that Inventor Norden had a collaborator, Captain Frederick I. Entwistle, assistant research chief of the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance. Captain Entwistle, who joined Norden in his experiments in 1928, shares the patents and the credit for the final model...