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...officers and 645 men of the British cruiser Orion, informing them just what happened while they were at action stations and unable to see. The Orion is commanded by Captain Geoffrey Robert Bensly Back, who issued the account, and is the flagship of Acting Vice Admiral Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell, second in command of the Mediterranean fleet. This ship has been many times in U.S. waters. . . In the battle ... it was one of four cruisers which . . . exposed themselves to the fire of an Italian battleship in order that the British heavy forces might make contact. After the account was issued...
Under Sir Andrew Cunningham's second-in-command, acting Vice Admiral Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell, an expert on big ships, the battle force undertook daring raids into the Strait of Otranto and once far beyond Valona in the Adriatic. It also laid siege to the Italian Dodecanese Islands. Last week the fleet splashed into "bomb alley"-the narrow Sicilian channel dominated by Italian Pantelleria on the one hand and German Stuka forces based on the island of Sicily on the other. But the Axis did not show its double head...
Jaunty, cocksure, well-muffled and goggled, Carey Pridham, 29, married, strode over to his Pitcairn Super-Mailwing at Newark, N. J. airport an early morning last week. He opened the mail compartment, chucked in his load of mail, and climbed into the pilot's seat. The Wright Whirlwind, nicely warmed up, was flipping the prop over slowly. The ship trembled in its wheel chocks. He opened up the motor to recheck the steady drone of power that was to carry him to Boston. Mechanically everything was fine. The ship had had its regular inspection the night before. A perfect...