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Typical of those who are now adding advanced studies to technical work learned in the Navy schools is one former Radioman First Class who has 20 months of Pacific submarine duty on his record...
...submarine, crippled, was still dangerous, and its deck guns were firing. On the Spencer's bridge a radioman dropped, clutching his belly. The ship's starboard davit had been smashed by a shell that sprayed fragments of steel over bridge, starboard passage and deck. Two men fell headlong in the passage, others reeled back from their posts...
...gasped the radioman, Julius Petrella. "Gimme something quick." As they picked him up gently, a warm, thick gush spilled from his back and darkly stained the deck. In his eyes was the hurt surprise of a man looking into unexpected death (it came within the hour). Hastily the sick bay was emptied of regular patients for the wounded...
Colonel Edward M. Kirby, radio chief of the War Department's Public Relations Bureau, wants to use the Wire Recorder to bring the battlefronts nearer home. With this device the radioman makes his comments into a hand microphone, which would also pick up surrounding battle sounds. The microphone actuates an electromagnet which records the sounds on a thin wire moving through it (by magnetically rearranging the molecular structure of the wire). The spool of wire, loaded with its temporary magnetic record, can then be sent away and "played back'' for radio broadcasting or transcription disk recording...
...Lieut. John A. Pritchard Jr. and Radioman Benjamin A. Bottoms rescued two Army airmen who had crashed on a Greenland icecap. Then they flew into a blinding snowstorm to bring back others. They were never seen again...