Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, a Negro seaman found out that color was a bar to advancement, no matter what the books said...
...station's daily bulletin had announced a call for "strikers"* in the aerological branch. The requisite: a high-school education. A dozen bluejackets applied for admittance to the aerological school. The Negro seaman's interview with the personnel officer went like this...
...Said Seaman Doil Carpenter, of Pasadena (a Monaghan man): "I was at No. 3 gun, aft, when she went down. . . . The suction pulled me under, and I was out cold when I came back up, but a cook pulled me aboard a raft. He died the night before they picked us up, from drinking salt water. Every time a wave would hit the raft, some more men would be missing...
Time's Nick. In Washington, pious Seaman First Class Robert Baker won a free phone call to Louisiana in a Scripture-reading contest, woke his family in time to rescue them from poison gas leaking from a heater...
Married. Jackie Cooper, 21, snub-nosed veteran cinema juvenile, now a seaman at Great Lakes Naval Training Station (TIME Nov. 13); and June Home, sweet-faced cinema starlet; in a church ceremony in Los Angeles...