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...show in the Mediterranean was I was on the bridge of the cruiser he was usin' for' a flagship. We had three other cruisers with us. Just like at Jutland, he was goin' ahead, scoutin' the enemy. 'Two Italian battleships, sir," I says. 'I can count, you bloody fool.' he says. Shortly was more Eyeties. 'Eighteen cruisers, sir.' I says. 'Dammit, man, I'm not blind,' he says. So then I decided I'd better hold my jaw, and shortly when there was more Eyeties I didn...
Perhaps his post as second in command of a gun turret at the Battle of Jutland gave George VI that sense of reality that modern monarchs seldom get. Perhaps it was his training as a pilot in the early R.A.F. But "the merit of having mobilized the Duke of York's social conscience goes to . . . the Reverend Robert Hyde," long a social worker among England's poor. Hyde once proposed a great welfare project to King George V. The King called in the Duke of York, asked him to sponsor the project. "I will do it," said...
...were flat and encased in low tennis shoes . . . with the laces carelessly flapping around her bare dirt-stained ankles. . . ." The children were Hub, Virginia ("Virginia ain't what you'd call a godly girl," said Paw), Gwendolin and Eugenia (who had "ferret-like eyes"), Harold and McKinley, Jutland, Buddy (who had a withered leg and a knack for drawing) and Reno (pro nounced Rinno). To Reno, their first born, Paw & Maw proudly referred as their "monstous curosity." He was 20 years old, six feet two inches tall, weighed less than 50 pounds, and drooled into a sparse beard...
...Where greatest naval battle since Jutland cost Italy at least six ships...
...Armed Forces of the Pacific proceeds to compare in detail the physical strength of the Japanese and U.S. fleets to draw conclusions from the Russo-Japanese War and the Battle of Jutland to suggest the commonly supposed hankering of Navy men to go beat the Japs while the beating is good...