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...want to start a fight in a British pub, just step up to the bar, next to a Scot of the Gordon Highlanders, and ask the barmaid for a half pint of broken squares.* A similar but more up-to-date casus belli might be to ask a seaman off H.M.S. Churchill about the Battle of Lasola Island...
Japs began spilling out of the conning tower. The New Zealand gunners peppered them. The Jap commander toppled off the bridge. His men tried to shoot out the patrol boat's light, mortally wounded the seaman operating it. The two vessels crashed...
Whether astronomers like his nomenclature or not, Herbert calls his crusade "a practical matter. . . . I am shocked to find how little the average seaman knows of the stars: for the average seaman, any day, may find himself in charge of an open boat." He wishes the astronomers would get together and say: "There is not much more that we can do in this mad war, though our skill and studies are guiding the ships, the aircraft and the soldiers every night. We honor the work of the Arab and the Roman who went before us, but these old names...
When a sailor has been at sea for three months he is eligible for his Able Seaman's rating, after which his basic pay alone amounts to $100 a month. At the completion of the required year of active duty, all men may retire from the service even if the war still continues...
...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...