Word: pt-boat
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...Australia from Panay, Douglas MacArthur had been supplying the rebels by submarine. Last week the guerrilla chief on Leyte and Samar, lithe, impassive Colonel Ruperto Kangleon claimed that his men had killed 3,800 Japs in the past year. Kangleon's chief of staff was a U.S PT-boat officer who missed the last Fortress out of Mindanao -one of many U.S. soldiers and sailors in the island who never surrendered...
Navy Lieut. Alfred GwynneVanderbilt, 31-year-old turfman turned South Pacific PT-boat skipper, was photographed with his 29-year-old brother George (also a lieutenant) at an advanced base in New Guinea (see cut). Apparently greasemonkeys to a considerable chunk of naval equipment, the descendants of the fabulous, family-founding skipper of the Staten Island ferry betrayed their rank only by their officer-like mustaches...
Born. To Frederick Fisk Bulkeley, 76, father of Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkeley, PT-boat hero (They Were Expendable), and Virginia Douglas Bulkeley, 42, his second wife: a son, their first child; in Bayonne, N.J. Weight...
...land forces in island warfare. He foresaw the importance of submarines in a U.S.-Japanese war, was a prophet of raiding warfare. Before the attack, at his Guadalcanal headquarters (where his staff includes a Marine colonel, a Navy captain, an Army major), he saw everyone from PT-boat skippers to major generals...
Married. Lieut, (j. g.) Anthony B. Akers, 28, one of the PT-boat expendables of the Bataan campaign; and Jane Pope, 24, daughter of the late Architect John Russell Pope; in Manhattan...