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...Commission maintains two schools for prospective officers-one at New London, Conn., the other at Alameda, Calif. There any seaman with three years' experience can enroll for a four-month course on everything from star sights to rules of the road. Officers in the making are paid $99 a month, turned out at the annual rate of 1,200. All hands at the schools are instructed in gunnery...
...recruit seaman is credited with the first blow against the enemy. General Quarters had not yet sounded when he fought off an attacking plane singlehanded with a machine...
When the brig door blew open a seaman confined earlier for misconduct dashed to his post at an antiaircraft gun. A hospitalized officer brushed aside his nurses when the first alarm was sounded, ran across the Yard to his ship. So effectively did he fight, despite his illness, that his captain recommended promotion. One tough sailor, unable to find a mount for a heavy machine gun, fired the weapon from his arms despite terrific rapid-fire concussion...
Other featured performers who pick up a frequent spot of extra cash include Chandu Shad, "Magician and shadow man," a Sophomore handwriting analyst, several musicians, and a twelve-piece jazz band. Thomas F. Bartlett '44, a traveller who has spanned over 100,000 miles as seaman and stevedore, is well-prepared to talk on "Sea Trail Blazing of War Zone Voyages," and many other equally able lecturers are on call for any kind of occasion...
...ordinary seaman was sitting on deck reading a book when it happened. The explosion shook a hatch beam loose; the beam cut off four of his toes. The third assistant engineer, below, was brained by falling deck plates...