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General Saunders and Captain Foss are far from alone. Another squadron leader named John C. Waldron made history at Midway. Remember? And a young lieut. commander, John H. Morrill, took his men from the Philippines to Australia in a PT boat. And the McNickle twins are flying bombers over Europe. And there's "Duke" Hedman, the Flying Tiger who was personally decorated by Madame Chiang Kai-shek-and Warren Evans, chosen the typical American Ranger-and Don Smith who was decorated after flying with Doolittle over Tokyo. . . . Their deeds are first of all American, I grant you, but they...
...told, are luxuries. At best you should fit them into your leisure time. They are mere decorations upon the sterner pattern of life. . . . Men and women who are devoting their lives to such studies should not be made to feel inferior or apologetic in the face of a PT boat commander or the driver of a tank. They and all their fellow citizens should know that the preservation of our cultural heritage is not superfluous in a modern civilization. ... It is what we are fighting...
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...
Between these attacks there were intermediate attacks. PT-boats, submarines and planes from Henderson Field attacked by night...
...toymakers have been busy all summer constructing, out of unrationed wood, PT boats, cannons, anti-aircraft guns, jeeps, tanks and commando cars (strong enough to hold father's weight). They christened their products "militoys," last week showed them to Christmas buyers...