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Below decks, in the air operations office, a young seaman in blue dungarees chalked an orange cross on the status board, to mark another plane that would not return...
...Seaman Michener knows his South Pacific. As an aviation-maintenance troubleshooter, later as a Navy historical officer, he probably saw more of the area than Melville, Conrad and Maugham put together...
...combat, a coward. On escort duty in the Pacific, all this became painfully obvious, even to a raw ensign like Willie Keith. When a typhoon hit the fleet in the Philippine Sea in December 1944, it became plain to all hands that Captain Queeg was not enough of a seaman to save the rusty, 1918-model Caine. When steady Lieut. Maryk, the executive officer, relieved the impotent captain under ticklish Article 184* of Navy Regulations and took over the ship, it seemed to the crew a reprieve from death. But so far as Queeg was concerned, it was mutiny...
...Travel. The final blow comes when he learns that solid old English Seaman Jenkins (as Novelists Shepard and Shepard tell it) was really a fraud who never lost an ear at all. Disillusioned, he turns his back on the English, the throne and "the contamination of power and vulgar success," and sets off on his travels again...
...only reason I am considering a change is that I think it would be easier to support my wife and three kids on a lieutenant colonel's salary than on a seaman...