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...Platoon, Co. A, always reaps a reward on their field trips: this time it was photographs, clips, elastic bands, ice cream, soda and the like ... all from Dennison Company??? Yet, we of the 2nd Platoon would have looked a trifle silly marching away from Hood with an inflated life raft...
...Hurry. Once clear, slow down, conserve strength. Swim slowly toward a rescue ship (if any) or a raft or a group of survivors. Lookouts are more likely to see a large group of men in the water than a lone swimmer. If rescue ships stop picking up survivors and rush off, prepare for a depth charging. Swim on your back, keep your belly clear of the water-borne concussion...
...commanding officer judged him "limited service material." The C.O. then learned that Capariso had survived 15 months' internment in North Africa, English air raids, shrapnel wounds at Dakar, three torpedoings, 16 days on the Atlantic in an open boat, three days on the Atlantic on a raft with a dead...
Background to Danger (Warner) stars George Raft and Sydney Greenstreet as opposing merchants of menace in neutral Turkey. Raft, as a patent-leathery G-man, comes into possession of a "Russian plan to invade Turkey" forged by the Nazis and intended to drive Turkey into Germany's embrace. With these hot documents the fat Gestapo agent Greenstreet would like to warm his hands. But when he gives Raft the third degree on the subject of the papers' hiding place, the G-man is rescued by a Russian agent played by the supersinister Peter Lorre...
Thus Hollywood assembles a potentially terrifying trio. Unfortunately, they are not given a very ominous score to play. Lorre eventually gets killed off. Raft makes too many narrow escapes from Greenstreet for credibility. And, for the purposes of action, Greenstreet talks too much in his best English accent...