Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department had refused Big Joe a passport to see how torpedoed seamen fare in Britain, Russia, North Africa. Curran shipped as a seaman, disappeared into wartime censorship. The New York World-Telegram's Westbrook Pegler, longtime Curran-comber (TIME, Aug. 30), attacked this "vacation," asked why the N.M.U. chief was not drafted...
...Seaman Allen L. Gordon went on the operating table in a South Pacific base hospital with one extra worry: he knew he might blow up. While on duty aboard a battleship he had been struck by a 20-mm. anti-aircraft shell which slashed into his belly, lodged in his left hip, freakishly did not explode...
...Including Seaman 2nd Class Elizabeth Korensky, first WAVE killed in line of duty on active service...
...Sullivan, as much seaman as airman, said no to all offers. He left Pan American, left his country. Few weeks later airmen heard that Rod Sullivan was the master of a Portuguese coastwise steamer. More recently they heard that he had gone to Africa, was working for the Liberian American Development Co. on the steaming West Coast. No one knew for certain...
...Seaman Joe, who wants to see battlefront ports in England, Africa and Russia, had waited for two months for a passport. While his application lay in the doldrums, he hopped a boat for his first job as a working seaman since...