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...Leave the sinking ship of Western civilization. It had reached its end: the Pacific. Beyond lies your friend: Japan, the lifeboat of racial love, made radiant by the star of the East, the Rising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Takcihashi's Blacks | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...least 15 of the crew were killed by gunfire. Some 20 were taken prisoner. The rest, after making 450 miles in five days in a sail-equipped lifeboat, were picked up and taken to an African port. They were the first survivors to confirm the presence of an armed surface raider in the South Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Invitation to Destruction | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Home. On Ocracoke Island, N.C., a Negro seaman visited his folks for the first time in 20 years. When his ship was torpedoed in the Atlantic, his lifeboat brought him straight home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 17, 1942 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...Cuba, survivors in a lifeboat, asking a U-boat commander for water and cigarets, got this reply: "Let Mr. Roosevelt supply them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Torpedo Terror | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...patches of flaming oil, before he was picked up. >Sailors rowing away from a doomed ship saw a Swedish freighter loom up in the night, get caught in a cross-fire of shells from two subs and catch fire. As she tried to flee, the Swede almost ran the lifeboat down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Catalina to the Rescue | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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