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...With Moe Raft, Mike Sachs, and Stinky & Shorty probably peeling potatoes in North Africa, the OH has had to resort to some of the lesser lights of the boards, namely Gawgle Lewis and Max Fuhrman. Those prosaic buffoons assist the 30 glorious girls and 60 people the Old Howard claims it provides subsistence for, in making all kinds physio-dirty...
...raft in the Pacific with Eddie Rickenbacker's shipwrecked airmen, Lieut. James C. Whittaker saw the stirrings of a national movement. "We all saw Johnny reading his Bible, his freckled face solemn as an owl's and the sun glinting on his red hair," he wrote in his new book We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing. "No one kidded...
...picked up from a life raft, had several shrapnel wounds. When the hospital discharged him he "just wanted to get away from everything." But after a month, during which he was scared stiff whenever he rode on a public conveyance, he shipped on a 29-day coastwise trip. One night "I was in bed and it was the first [alarm] I heard since I was torpedoed, and I practically froze in my bed. I didn't want to get out. I was musclebound, you might say, for several seconds." After that trip, he was sent to the Long Island...
...another attacker got Widhelm's oil cooler. He put his plane in a tight corkscrew which no Zero could follow (Gus used to be a stunter), landed in the water and got into his rubber raft with Stokely...
They were almost smack in the middle of the Jap task force. Lieut. "Benny" Moore, his bald, bowlegged, Texas flight officer, led the others in, and Widhelm had to watch his attack theories from a raft. His main idea: the only way to escape anti-aircraft fire and yet make a hit is to start the dive higher than the books say, end it lower. On top of that, he would make the plane oscillate most of the way down so as not to be a fixed target...