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...quiet, predawn hours of Dec. 7, 1941, the U.S.S. Ward, a 23-year-old, four-piper destroyer, rolling back to Pearl Harbor from a routine patrol, picked up a startling report from a minesweeper: a mysterious object, possibly a submarine, had been detected in the darkness to the west. From the skipper's cabin, Lieut. William W. Outerbridge, nervously proud of his first full command, hurried out to direct a search. Finding nothing, he gave the order to secure from general quarters, went back to sleep...
...majesty." Still they galloped. "My British mind never properly grasped the dimensions of North America," panted the Duke; "are we still in Pennsylvania?" "That was Baltimore," said someone, as they flashed past a large town. "Egad, what a nest of ugly peasants!" snapped the Duke. In the "cold, caliginous predawn" the huntsmen forded the Delaware. By afternoon they were thundering through the heart of New Jersey. At nightfall Hugo's mare grabbed the fox with her teeth, tossed it ten feet into the air. The world's longest and screwiest fox hunt (200 miles in 45 hours...
Mock Sickness. In predawn darkness, hundreds of Philadelphia's streetcar, subway and bus operators clumped into the sprawling, grimy carbarns as usual at 4 a.m. one morning last week. But as they checked in, one after another of them begged off work. They had an agreed excuse: "I'm sick - sick to my stomach." The cause of their mock sickness: eight Negro employes, who had been upgraded to motormen, were scheduled to make their first trial run that morning...
Blue exhaust flames flicker like fireflies in the predawn darkness. On the flight decks of U.S. carriers, dive-bombers, torpedo planes and fighters are being revved tip. One by one they soar out, their red and green riding lights skimming lower over the shadowy superstructures of a multitude of warships. Gaining altitude they form in flights, circle, flock toward the dark horizon...
Guam, Too. Douglas and Curtiss dive-bombers roared out of the predawn to smack the twin, 15-mile-long islands of Saipan and Tinian, while Grumman Hellcats provided cover and strafing. Later in the day a second strike was launched on schedule. A smaller delegation of Navy pilots bombed U.S.-owned Guam, 85 miles farther south, for the first time since the Japs seized it in December...