Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name of his famed fox terrier, Ch. Nornay Saddler, the War Dog Fund hopes to enlist as many of the nation's 20,000,000 dogs as possible into an honorary K-9 Home Guard. For $1, a contributor's dog receives the rank of private or seaman, and so on upwards. Some Park Avenue generals or admirals ($100) may go so far as to have gold braid sewed on their strolling jackets, but officially each Home Guard K-9 of whatever rank receives the same insignia: a paw print on a celluloid collar-tag. Among the hundreds...
Three weeks after blonde, attractive Helen Hall, 22, joined the WAVES, her husband enlisted in the Navy. Helen became a yeoman, 3rd class, her husband a seaman. Last week in San Diego WAVE Hall announced she had been given an honorable discharge "because one of my superior officers became worried" over a new kind of social anomaly: marriage between two sailors. (Navy regulations exclude women whose husbands hold lesser rank.) Ex-WAVE Hall told her story to a WAAC recruiting office, was promptly enlisted...
...merchant seaman is doing a huge job in the war. Last week a conference of Government medical officials and top-rank psychiatrists at the New York Academy of Medicine considered what a grueling job it is also. Cases were presented from the War Shipping Administration's five rest homes for seamen (in Long Island, New Jersey, Maryland, Louisiana, California). Samples...
...Until last autumn, when the War Shipping Administration, aided by the United Seamen's Service, established its homes, many a man sailed again into dangerous waters still suffering from tremor, double vision or sleeplessness. Chronic alcoholics, chronic psychoneurotics are not admitted to the homes. Any other bona fide seaman needing treatment...
Aboard a U.S. submarine in enemy waters of the Pacific, Seaman Dean Rector was down with acute appendicitis. The nearest naval surgeon was thousands of miles away. Pharmacist's Mate Wheller Lipes watched Rector's temperature rise to 106, knew his only hope was an operation. Said Lipes: "I've watched doctors do appendectomies. I think I could do it. . . . What...