Word: seamens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late Teddy, took part in his first action against the Japs-a reconnaissance flight over Kiska. Back home, his 20-room manor at Oyster Bay, L.I., was opened as a convalescent home for torpedoed merchant seamen. Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, reviewing a parade of WAACs at Fort Des Moines, congratulated the leader of the winning group of marchers so successfully that Margaret M. Wheatley burst into tears. Emily Bradley Saltonstall, daughter of Massachusetts' Governor, enlisted in the WAVES in Boston as an apprentice seaman. Alfred Ryder, 26, long the "Sammy" of Radio...
...three seamen were not a picked team. The unlucky flight was their first together. They barely knew one another's surnames...
Tony Pastula, the 24-year-old bomber, came of a Polish family in Youngstown, Ohio. He had a horror of being buried at sea on a rough day. "Perhaps, also," says Dixon, "he had a # Seamen Pastula, Dixon, Aldrich. horror of being eaten [by his mates]." Tony was the thinnest and thought he might be the first to die. Nevertheless, he agreed with the other two that "the survivors should eat the heart, liver and other such organs" of whichever one went first. Says Dixon: "Today I don't believe that any of us had a real intention...
From Reuter's Correspondent Norman Thorpe came an eyewitness account of her destruction. Thorpe was aboard. "Violent explosions" sent him rushing to the quarterdeck. As the Eagle heeled over, "six-inch shells, each weighing 100 lb., tore loose from their brackets and bumped down the clifflike deck." Seamen flung themselves overboard to escape the runaway shells. Thorpe himself slid down a rope into the thick, oil-coated sea, let go, realized with horror that he had not blown enough air into his lifebelt. He thrashed his way to a cork float...
...Italian seamen had boasted that they did a thorough job of destruction when they scuttled or burned or smashed everything useful in Massaua harbor. Massaua, in Eritrea, had once been one of Mussolini's biggest naval bases outside of Italy. When the victorious British arrived its waterfront shops were in ruins, its waters choked with sunken ships...