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Sweepers. Across the Channel another fleet moved-an ungainly motley of fishing trawlers, old coal-burners and new, specially designed craft. Their dirty, dangerous chore: to sweep the waters clear of mines. They moved with care, ploughing the Channel in straight furrows towards the coast, where midget submarines for the past three days had laid out beach markers. They went to work...
Photographers who had waited outside jammed plates into their cameras, snapped the most startling U.S. newspicture (see cut) since a press agent set a midget on J. P. Morgan's lap in 1933. One Ward executive suggested putting the picture on the cover of Ward's next catalogue, with a caption "We take orders from everybody." Put down on the sidewalk, Sewell Avery bowed slightly to his carriers, walked across the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad tracks to a waiting limousine...
...Aldershot. Garbett's father was vicar. Tongham lies near the chalk downs of Salisbury Plain and the heather-and-fir country of the New Forest. Here, until he was 23, Cyril Garbett lived with his three brothers and one sister (all raised on his father's midget salary). Later Cyril Garbett decided to follow his father, grandfather, and two uncles into the Church of England...
Eventually they were introduced to the vehicles they were going to operate. They were British four-man midget submarines, designated as X-class boats. The men knew that once started on an assignment it would be physically impossible to lie down. No one could cook food; they would have to live on the beefed-up rations and drinks they took along. Censorship has cleared nothing on the X-boats sanitary arrangements; presumably the men had relief tubes like those provided for airplane pilots on long flights...
...other major German warships, the 41,000-ton battleship Tirpitz (sister of the lost Bismarck) is still out of action from torpedo hits by British midget subs. The Scharnhorst's sister, Gneisenau; the so-called "pocket battleship" Admiral Scheer; the heavy cruisers Prinz Eugen and Admiral Hipper-all these have been damaged repeatedly by bombs and torpedoes, are of dubious fighting value. The pocket battleship Lutzow was torpedoed in 1941, but may be fit for service again. Despite the catchy description, she is no battleship, but an armored cruiser of around 12,000 tons. For the rest, aside from...