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...Perkins is busying herself around her lumber yard when Gladys Pendleton calls to say that her mother Matilda fell, or was pushed, while arguing about a divorce with her husband, pompous Bank President Augustus Pendleton. Augustus goes off to spend the evening with his gentle lady friend, Widow Amy McKenzie, the woman Matilda wants to name in the divorce suit. The teaser: Will gentle Amy marry pompous Augustus...
Director Joseph Lewis has deployed his cast efficiently in documenting the progress of a battalion from training at Camp Pendleton to the Inchon landing, the recapture of Seoul and the 1950 drive into North Korea when the marines, battling frostbite and the enemy, had to fall back to Hungnam harbor. But Director Lewis' leathernecks, marching from the halls of Hollywood to the shores of sentiment, are screen stencils rather than flesh & blood marines, and the result is formula heroics...
...storm roared on, a Coast Guard radar station at Chatham, Mass. picked up a strange "target" - the halves of the ship seemed to be washing about in Chatham shoals 25 miles from where they were supposed to be. A low-flying search plane investigated, and read the name Pendleton on the broken vessel's bow. Only then did the Coast Guard realize that a second tanker-a sister ship of the Fort Mercer -had also split in two. The ship's radio was dead and the sections had been drifting for hours...
...twin rescue jobs which followed will be long remembered among New England mariners. A Coast Guard boatswain's mate named Bernard Webber lashed himself to the wheel of a 36-ft. open power lifeboat and went out to the Pendleton. Eight men had been on the Pendleton's bow; all were lost. But in the light of flares, Webber and his lifeboat snatched 32 seamen on her stern from certain death. A 33rd was drowned...
Both ships were World War II T-2-type tankers, whose welded hulls tend to crack in two when subjected to low temperatures and hammering seas. Of 523 T-2s built between 1943 and 1945, eight had split before the Pendleton and Fort Mercer. Seamen could only guess how many more might break in years to come...