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...silvery light. Somewhere in darkness was an enemy submarine. Aboard the Spencer was TIME Correspondent William Walton, whose account of what followed was released by the Navy this week: The seconds dragging by seemed an age. "Jesus, why don't we do something?" muttered a gunner's mate. Nothing but dark waves could be seen ahead. The tension grew. A man with headphones relayed an order to the starboard 3-in. gun: "Load a star shell...
...Shortly before midnight on the 2nd September, 1942 . . . [German] Chief Mate Munte . . . was seated in his office in the Casquet [Channel Islands] lighthouse. . . . A slight noise-it may have been the click of the door as it closed softly-caused him to turn in his chair. Leaning against the door were two men with black faces. . . . Colt automatics, negligently poised, were in their hands...
...Chief Mate Munte blanched, passed his hand over his face, looked again and fainted with terror. He soon found himself under escort, bobbing over the dark waters towards England. With him were his subordinates, dressed as they had been when roused-in pajamas and, curiously enough, hair nets...
...Lakes has a ball team of major-league caliber. But the service team that looks even better, at least on paper, is the one that wears the blue & grey of the Norfolk Naval Training Station. Last year the Sailors had only one great big-leaguer, Chief Boatswain's Mate Bob Feller (now at sea). This year, besides Rizzuto, McCoy, Dom Di Maggio and Padgett, the line-up includes two up-&-coming youngsters: First Baseman Eddie Robinson, onetime Baltimore Oriole, and Catcher Vince Smith, a fledgling Pirate who handled Feller's pitching last year. To replace Feller, the Sailors...
...textile industry's estimates of 1943 needs for all these essentials, run up to 9 billion yd. That would leave U.S. civilians only about five billion yd. (v. a civilian 8.9 billion yd. last year). Even this esti mate includes the entire carryover, assumes that production stays at peak besides...