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...Navy named last week one carrier, three cruisers and six destroyers which it had previously admitted lost between Oct. 26 and Dec. 1 but had not named. The carrier was the Hornet. The cruisers were the Atlanta, Juneau, Northampton. The destroyers were the Cushing, Preston, Benham, Walke, Monssen, Laffey, Barton. Most interesting news was the inclusion of the Atlanta and Juneau-fast, light anti-aircraft vessels bristling with 16-five-inch guns. Their loss was presumably due to their meeting surface vessels, against which they had not been primarily designed to fight...
...history's most heroic acts . . . an act of perfect courage" was what President Theodore Roosevelt called it when, during target practice off Pensacola in 1904, Chief Gunner's Mate Mons Monssen of the battleship Missouri* crawled into the magazine after an explosion had already killed 29 men and injured five, and with bare hands beat out a fire which would have killed 600 more had it reached the powder room. Mate Monssen got a Congressional Medal. In 1925 he retired, a lieutenant. In 1930 he died. This spring the Navy Department notified Hero Monssen's widow that...
Last week, Widow Sadie Monssen, 50, had not been forgotten by other agencies of her Government. From the Veterans' Administration she has been getting a $30-a-month widow's pension. From WPA her daughter has had $24 a week relief pay. From HOLC she received a notice that her home in Brooklyn would be foreclosed because she could not raise more than $35 of the $65.56 due monthly on her loans and owed $967 back interest...
Died. Lieut. Mons Monssen, U. S. N., retired; in Brooklyn Naval Hospital; following appendectomy. In 1904, as chief gunner's mate on the battleship Missouri, he saved 600 officers and men from destruction by leaping into the powder magazine of a flaming gun turret, shutting the door, fighting the fire with bare hands. President Roosevelt pinned the Medal of Honor on his breast...
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