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...When I was in the College," said Torbie Macdonald, captain of Harvard's 1939 football team, "I always wondered how old grads got that way. I never got enthusiastic about anything in Cambridge; Harvard was just another college. But out in the Pacific in a PT boat, I began to understand. I found myself hoping that when I returned home I'd find here still the traditions of the wonderful life...
Lieutenant Torbert H. Macdonald '40, USNR, is back home after 17 months of sea duty, with a record that has won him the Silver Star, the Atlantic and Pacific Theatre ribbons, and a Presidential Unit Citation, the only one given to a PT squadron...
Having gone to the Law School for a year and a half after his graduation, "Torbie joined up when Pearl Harbor was struck. Assigned to a PT squadron, he first got into action at the beginning of the New Guinea campaign, after preliminary training at Melville, Rhode Island, and in the Atlantic...
...acceptance speech, to rediscover the Pacific War. He lolled and rested for five days as the big grey ship plowed westward. Just out of sight of Hawaii's majestic Diamond Head, squad rons of pursuit planes came over, and the blue water below bubbled with the scurrying of PT boats...
Land, Sea and Air Trap. Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Fifth Air Force (later combined with the South Pacific's Thirteenth into the Far Eastern Air Force) smashed Jap air power and made the sea lanes impassable for Jap supply ships. PT boats shot up barges which the Japs tried to use as a substitute...