Word: pastula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With him was Radioman Gene Aldrich, 22, a husky, gabby, self-confident Missouri farm boy, and Ordnanceman Tony Pastula, shy, dreamy, sandy-haired son of Polish immigrants. After CCC camps in the West, they had both joined the Navy to see the world. But with 41-year-old Dixon, whose first hitch began in 1919, the Navy was a business. He took charge as soon as his beloved bomber sank from sight...
...knew all about every woman any one of them had so much as kissed. They could recite back to Aldrich the names of the three cows on his old man's farm; and they warned him not to describe again how the peach trees looked in the spring. Pastula sang softly until his throat became too parched. Dixon, impatient, worried but cheerfully profane, decided to head for islands in the south. He drew a chart on a piece of canvas. With the salvaged line of rope and a life jacket, he rigged up a sea anchor which steadied...