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...destroyermen shook mournful heads nonetheless. They would see no more of the deeds of "31-Knot-Burke...
...squadron's time came on Oct. 31, 1943 when it swept around the Solomons bastion at Bougainville (at 31 knots) whipped close inshore and shot up Jap airfields one after the other while Marines stormed ashore at Empress Augusta Bay. Near the end of the job a Jap task force turned up. Burke, who had made a 31-knot run to refuel, was back on the job. The Little Beavers led their task force in sinking a cruiser and four destroyers that day. Navymen had never seen anything like the fury and deadly precision of the Little Beavers...
Thanksgiving in the Pacific. On Thanksgiving Day Burke piled into two Jap light cruisers and four destroyers between New Britain and New Ireland. "The first three sank before they knew what hit them," he reported later. Leaving one destroyer "to finish off the cripples, if there are any," 31-Knot-Burke chased the rest, sank a fourth ship. At 3:45 a.m. he told his captains over the T.B.S. (intership radio) to hold course until 4:15 "unless some of you guys think we should turn back...
...tread water, take off your pants or jacket, tie a knot in the legs or sleeves, button them up and swing them through the air so that the arms and legs fill with air. Then twist the open ends so that the air stays in and you have a life preserver...
...informal collection of R.A.F. air vice marshals, pilots, war correspondents and others invited to meet George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The King's manner with his airmen is easy, comradely. The King likes ribald stories, has a large store of them, enjoys standing in a corner with a knot of men swapping ribaldries...