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...went on to Maurizio about five miles away, where there was a large collection of olive-oil tanks. We went slowly into port, making no noise, with the gun manned, keeping a very good lookout in the darkness. I could see the Italians driving about in cars, and every now & then a chap would go by with his girl friend, smoking a cigaret. I could hear the dogs barking. It was all frightfully peaceful. I felt we were swine to interrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE SEAS: Good Time in the Depths | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

Fire and Fish. At 7:15 the lookout reported planes. Berlin started back toward the cockpit; it was already too late. The only thing he could do was lie down, so he stretched out on deck and calmly gave an order: "All right, general quarters." The port gunner, a blond youngster named Richard Dudziak, started to fire into the engine of an approaching plane. It looked like an American SBD but the location of two blue-burning exhausts meant a Jap torpedo plane. As the plane passed over, Skipper Berlin could almost reach and touch the red ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: How the Carriers Were Sunk | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

Princess O'Rourke (Warner) is radio-advertised by a police voice: "Calling all moviegoers! Calling all moviegoers! Be on lookout for "Princess O'Rourke," better known as Olivia de Havilland. Five feet three, and every inch a darling. Also young American pilot, known as Robert Cummings. Six feet one, has gleam in his eye. This couple believed to have stolen everybody's heart. . . . That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 22, 1943 | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...blows hit the German flanks. A British amphibian force struck north of the Volturno's mouth, from the Tyrrhenian Sea. German artillery lay in wait. But that did not stop the Tommies. From American-type, bow-opening craft they landed, dug in. Offshore, the British destroyers Laforey and Lookout and The Netherlands gunboat Flores shelled the German defenses. The action was fierce, costly. But the bridgehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: ... Damn Hard! | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

Formerly visual aids officer of the school, Lt. E. O. Elmer, Jr., USNR, has been given the additional duty of Educational Officer. In this capacity he will supervise the advancement of enlisted personnel at the school, in addition to instruction in night lookout work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 10/19/1943 | See Source »

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