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Dwight Floyd Pyle, seaman, second class, Bainbridge...
Before it reached the coast, the storm raced crazily over almost a thousand miles of sea. It caught a seaman from the tanker Myriam, washed him overboard. Storm warnings flew from the tip of Florida to southern Texas. Four hundred Army planes in the Louisiana maneuvers were ordered into Texas, out of harm...
...years after he became Tsar, Peter began to woo the sea. He learned on a Russian lake how to trim a sheet and ease a tiller. Later he went to Holland disguised as Peter Mikhailov, able-bodied seaman, there took a job in shipyards and learned how to warp gnarled oak into clean ship shape with his own hands. He learned navigation, piloting, naval tactics...
...filled in the gaps. On trial were Herman Lang, accused of selling details of the design of the bombsight, shadowy Frederick Joubert Duquesne, blond Axel Wheeler-Hill, brother of Bundster James Wheeler-Hill, as well as a baker, a shipping clerk, a book salesman, a photographer, a musician, a seaman, a machinist...
...German Fleet of small submarines and torpedo boats, floated down the Danube or shipped in pieces by rail, was assembling last week in Bulgarian ports. Only rumor announced the news, but for once rumor had support. Berlin papers carried a photograph of no less a Nazi seaman than Grand Admiral Erich Raeder conversing with Bulgarian officers. The Russian Government sent a sharp note accusing its old friend Bulgaria not only of harboring Axis army and air force units, but of letting Axis warships gather in the ports of Varna and Burgas (on the Black Sea) and Ruschuk (on the Danube...