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...Raft. A West Pointer, and an Air Corpsman since 1924, Twining headed the Thirteenth Air Force when it was formed in January 1943 to support the drive up the Solomon Islands. A few days later, Twining was flying in a Fortress from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal to Espiritu Santo. A violent tropical storm forced the plane down at sea, and General Twining and his men were adrift in rubber rafts for six days, living on fish and seagulls, before patrol bombers rescued them...
Wriggling through all this dense tedium-laudamus, like a Pekingese lost in a shopping rush, is a story. George Raft, a hoofer, marries Vera Zorina, a dancer. But George can think of nothing but camp shows and Vera can think of nothing except their impending baby (about which she is too miffed to tell him), so they part. Before they can make it up Raft dies, a hero, in the Pacific. His widow becomes the pride...
...Passage to Marseille" starring Humbrey Bogart is a story of a French freighter making its way through the Caribbean bound for Marseille. It picks up five men adrift on a raft, who later confide to a Captain Freycnet(Claude Rains) that they are fugitives from Devils Island, all of them French patriots sworn o return to France and fight the Boche. The leader of the five is Matrac (Bogart) who was the victim of a trumped-up charge of murder and treason, in politically upset pre-war France...
...Catholic chaplains I have talked with. One or two glamorous incidents on a life raft or in an airplane might make the headlines. The picture of a crucifix and a scapular medal gives the impression that every soldier says an Act of Contrition every night. But I have found instances of Catholics who don't even know, the Hail Mary and as far as the Act of Contrition is concerned, don't make me laugh! I have had soldier after soldier repeat after me word for word the Act of Contrition so that I could give him absolution...
...task force also rescues fallen air men. One afternoon we picked up five of our men. The Jap airmen were less interested in this gratuitous service. Four Japs on a raft shot themselves rather than be captured...