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...Rescue. Germans in lifejackets floated near. One moaned. Another, his officer's cap no longer jaunty, raised dripping hands in supplication. As the ship passed the officer, an exuberant seaman who had fought such enemies for 14 months leaned over the rail and shouted: "Ya, ya, ya, now who's the supermen...
There was a stiff breeze, and the blue Mediterranean waves wore little white hats. A seaman on the deck of a destroyer looked at those waves and at the shore of Tunisia beyond, and said: "I've been in three evacuations-Norway, France and Crete. I'm glad...
...that Midshipmen now in attendance at this school have not completed their basic as line officers, unsuccessful Supply Corps candidates (and may their number be few!) will be transferred to a Naval Reserve Midshipman School. They will enter as Midshipmen and will not be required to repeat the apprentice seaman's indictrination. It is not at present known whether selection of the line school will be left to the men, or how soon they will be required to report. However, they will be given an opportunity to leave this station before May 31, and will have some shore leave before...
...recent convert to baseball, Four-Striper McClure is now a rabid fan. When Seaman Rizzuto made a home run in a recent game with the Washington Senators, the Certain sprang off the players' bench, rushed out to shake his hand as he crossed the plate. During another game, when fly-chasing Di Maggio backed into a deep gully on the edge of the field, Captain McClure jumped into his private jeep, scooted across the field to see if he was hurt. The Captain is constantly tacking notices on the clubhouse bulletin board. The morning of a game with...
Forester's ship is the 5,000-ton light cruiser Artemis. Her job: with the help of four other light cruisers and a dozen destroyers, to escort a convoy to Malta. In the Artemis' crow's nest Ordinary Seaman Quimsby, his padded perch whirling "in prodigious circles against the sky," sees a faint wreath of smoke on the Mediterranean skyline and in a few minutes, "climbing over . . . the curve of the world," come six enemy cruisers, vanguard of an Italian force of battleships and destroyers...