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Tired, old, the Marblehead throbbed as she gathered speed and the sky spewed Jap bombers. Over & over again they came. On the deck of the Marblehead a bomb smashed home. She heeled, shuddered, spit flames from her shattered deck. Her quartermaster sang out: "Steering gear's gone...
With her rudder jammed hard over, the Marblehead circled like a headless hen, smoke seething fore & aft. Her decks slithered with oil, water, patches of blood. Once more the ship was hit. Sky guns from the cruiser Houston winged a bomber which tried to suicide-dive the Marblehead, crashed into the water only 30 feet away...
...U.S.S. Marblehead, light cruiser often claimed sunk . . . was bombed to hell and brought out of it by a crew that doesn't know the meaning of the word abandon. Thus the Navy last week began a long delayed tale of heroism about the Battle of Java...
From Java she limped to Ceylon, tacking like a sailboat, and from Trincomalee to Capetown, choosing the shorter, safe laps of the long way round the world. Still shipping water, the Marblehead got home last week. This week her Captain, shy, soft-spoken Arthur G. Robinson, watched men swarming over her, dragging pipes, riveting, hammering below decks. Home from hell, the Marblehead was being reconditioned, for she might have to go into hell again...
...civilization; Robert A. Rennie, of Blackstone, Mass., economics; David Spring 3G, of Toronto, Ont., Canada, history; Marcus Singer 4G, of Pittsburgh, Pa., biology; Charles E. Passage, of Cambridge, Mass., German; Donald L. Everhart 3G, of Granville, Ohio, mineralogy; and (for the summer of 1942) Roger M. Colo 3G, of Marblehead, Mass., biology...