Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started on the 26th of August when our P.O.W. camp of 509 British, Dutch and a few Americans in the center of Japan's Northern Island was visited by four torpedo bombers from the U.S.S.Hancock. . . . They bombed us with food, tobacco, candy, TIME and LIFE, in sailor's kitbags addressed "To the men we have not forgotten." . . . The amazing cordiality, informality and fantastic speed with which we were clothed, fed, deloused, bathed, injected, inoculated and whizzed down here by Liberators and air transports, on occasion with nurses, was an epic of dynamic friendliness finding a way through...
...Massachusetts Maritime Academy here Saturday, finally succumbed on the short end of a 13 to 9 count. Freshman E. N. Foynes scored the only Crimson touchdown on an end run in the first period, but Coach Al Kevorkian's outfit was unable to hold the mariners. After a sailor score in the second quarter, the home team struck back with a safety early in the second half, but a last-period tally sewed up the contest for the visitors...
...SAILOR'S NAME WITHHELD] Pensacola...
Fair to Foul. In Washington, Navy Secretary James Vincent Forrestal, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King and other Navymen wondered about the effect on the U.S. public of this stirring performance and great publicity show. An epoch was ended. As any sailor knows, every fair wind sooner or later blows foul. In the aftermath of every major war which the U.S. has waged in the past 80 years, public sympathy has veered; in the fog of na tional policy, overtaken by its own rust, the Navy has all but foundered...
...admiral-gets up to make a speech, you never can tell what he may say. To 2,000 diners at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, welcoming the Admiral back home last week, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz lapsed into doggerel. The verses, he explained, about a sailor named Patsy McCoy, had been found by a Navy censor, going through the mail...