Word: seamans
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...intelligence breach, could have been expecting a U.S. drive in that area anyway, or could simply have decamped when the first bombers appeared. "If we get in there and don't kill anybody and don't find anything, it will be embarrassing," said Lieut. General Jonathan O. Seaman, commander of the operation, expressing disappointment at the first results. "Sometimes knowing what isn't there can be valuable, but I hate to spend this many resources for that kind of intelligence...
...General Seaman felt that it was too early to assess the full value of the drive, which will probably continue for three weeks. At any rate, if it accomplishes nothing else, Operation Junction City* will have let the Viet Cong know that U.S. troops can enter their heartland at will and destroy their fortifications and supplies. "I would hate to be a VC," said General Seaman, "and know that I have no safe haven in South Viet Nam any more...
...Communist cannot serve aboard a U.S. merchant ship. When ex-Seaman Joseph C. McBride sought to validate his mariner's papers in order to get a job, the Coast Guard learned that he had been an active Communist Party member for at least twelve years. After two hearings, the Coast Guard denied McBride's application because it was not satisfied that his "presence on board a merchant vessel of the U.S. would not be inimical to the security of the U.S." Claiming denial of due process, McBride argued in Federal Court that there was absolutely no evidence that...
...such excruciating pain from the cold that "I hoped I would die." Though he was unaware of it, nobody knew of his plight; the Morrell had not even sent off an SOS. Not until 34 hours after she sank, when another freighter came upon the floating corpse of a seaman wearing a Morrell life jacket, was a search launched. Two hours later, a Coast Guard helicopter sighted Kale's raft, and divers in rubber suits hoisted him and his three dead mates aboard. In all, a score of bodies were recovered, and it appeared that Hale...
Died. Frank E. ("Pappy") Noel, 61, Associated Press war photographer since 1937, who was torpedoed after escaping the fall of Singapore in 1942 (got a classic shot of a Lascar seaman in a lifeboat begging for water), covered Malaya, Burma, the Middle East, Europe and finally Korea, where he was captured, imprisoned for three years, somehow acquired a camera, and even conned his Chinese captors into letting him send pictures back to the U.S.; of a stroke; in Gainesville...