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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pearl Harbor. When the Jap struck, the Army had six troopships and nine cargo vessels at sea; all save one cargo ship made their way safely either to home ports or friendly ports. Supply routes were hastily reorganized, planes flown to Australia via Africa and India in ten days. But the ground crews and materiel to keep them flying had to go out the slow way-ten weeks or longer...
Groucho Marx has always claimed that if Ruby's father and Joe Di Maggio were in a burning building, and only one could be saved, Ruby would save Joe. "After all," agrees Ruby, "my father doesn...
...save gas, taxis on the main downtown thoroughfares were ordered to wait for fares in the middle of the street instead of pulling in to the curb...
Inevitably, high purpose was outvoted by low comedy: the salty songs roared by men away from women. Some are as topical as Tunisia, some such timeless bottle-bellowings as Cristofor Colombo, The Tattooed Lady and The Bastard King of England, all with well-scrubbed lyrics save for the commoner low-voltage expletives...
Lieut. William Pittman tried desperately to save Cheli. He pulled up out of formation head on for a Zero, exposing himself to the whole pack. Lightnings rescued him. But Cheli was beyond help. As he turned-out to sea he called to his wingman to take over. He put the plane down. Pittman said it seemed to explode when it hit the water...