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...around town with the GID. Review of U.T. movies 7:40 "Music 1 on the Air" Parcell-Dido and Aeneas Handel-Concerto Gross No.12 in B Minor 8:45 News From the Colleges: M.I.T. Night 9:00 "Nine O'clock Jump" 9:30 Swimming Team Bull-Session with Ca pt. Fannies Powers 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall" Casella-Suite From La Glara Cropland-El Salon Mexico B loch-quintet for plane and string quartet 10:45 Crimson News and Interview...
...knots (60 m.p.h.). Lieut. Caldwell could also report that when the PTs were under high speed all day, their crews were pounded unmercifully; all they wanted, once back at the Yard, was to crawl into a bunk. The Navy had made no mistake in setting the age limit of PT crews at 35, in speedily washing out of PT service any man who got seasick in heavy going...
...commander of the first PT squadron, Lieut. Caldwell and his weather-battered men were pioneering the first new Navy fighting craft since planes became a fleet weapon. For their insignia they went to Cineman Walt Disney, got what they wanted from his Hollywood studio- a mosquito astride a torpedo. For their tactics they went abroad, for the new PTs-some 70 ft. of hull enclosing 4,500 h.p. in three engines- are designed for a job new to the U. S. Navy, old stuff to the British, Italians and Germans. The PTs are made for swift dashes into harbors...
Flagship of the squadron will be the PT-10. Like others of its class, PT-10 is essentially for offshore patrol. She carries 3,000 miles of cruising in her gasoline tanks, could cross the Atlantic if need be. But if they ever do go to war, best bet is that the Navy's new boats will cross the ocean on the decks of battleships or cruisers, or be shipped across the continent on flatcars...
Without the additional year's training ensigns will probably be given the so-called PT boats, seventy footers with a speed of up to fifty miles an hour in time of a National emergency...