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...number and exact location of these guardian outposts, scattered along the Panama Canal, are close-held Army secrets. But any foreign sailor, gliding through the Canal on a freighter, can see occasional clusters of tents or barracks in the hills, can even see the snouts of guns against the sky. Any Japanese or German strategist, studying maps of the Canal, knows that the guns are there to guard some of the most valuable military targets in the world: the locks in the Canal itself, and great earthen Gatun Dam (105 ft. above sea level and 400 ft. thick...
...likely to be drawn quite differently before and after the fact. Prior to the fall of France, very little was made known about Admiral Darlan to the Allied press save that he was colorless but competent. The archives of London and Washington now reveal France's No. 1 sailor as quite a different personality...
...Percy is a definition of versatility. He has had experience at sea on destroyers, cruisers, battleships. He has been in charge (1928-30) of plans for fleet operations in case of war. He has been a social sailor, as naval aide-de-camp to King George V and later as captain of the royal yacht. He has taken on the toughest diplomatic job in the Royal Navy-Commander in Chief of the China Station, at a time (1938-40) when Japan was sowing her wildest oats; this post turned Sir Percy's hair from black to grey...
...rise of Jackpot Riley reads like a W. R. Burnett novel. He saw Shanghai first in the '20s, a sailor off a U.S. Yangtze Patrol sloop, drinking in the dives along "Blood Alley." When he finished his hitch in the Navy he went back to the U.S., soon landed in the Oklahoma State penitentiary under the name of Johnny Becker, with a 25-year sentence for attempted highjacking. Two years later he escaped from jail, headed again for Shanghai...
...boat's main feature is the ability to pass under bridges with safety. Civilians throwing objects from bridges have always been the sailor's nightmare, but, as Ewing pointed out, with the armor as protection they can "sound 'general quarters' and retreat below decks" to escape rocks and safes hurled down upon them from Lars Anderson or Cottage Farm Bridge. For this reason, the boat would be invaluable to the invaders of Britain because they would be able to pass unmolested under the bridge at Scapa Flow. To foil German agents desirous of the construction plans, the designers have built...