Word: seamens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congratulation from Germany's top sea lord, Admiral Erich Raeder. The telegram stated that total United Nations shipping sunk in all theaters in six months amounted to 616 ships-nearly 4,000,000 tons-most of it in American waters. This meant that not fewer than 20,000 seamen had been dumped into the ocean...
Kind Commander. A black-hulled U-boat, its conning tower decorated with a goat insignia, surfaced near two seamen swimming amid wreckage from their torpedoed cargo ship. Hauled aboard, Cornelius O'Connor, 19, and Raymond Smithson, 24, were given a tin cupful of rum by a fat officer in the conning tower. Suddenly a U.S. patrol plane appeared in the distance. O'Connor and Smithson were pushed down into the control room while the U-boat made a crash dive. Blindfolded, they were marched toward the torpedo room, where German seamen sponged off the oil coating the rescued...
...reigning monarch, though in exile, and as the richest woman in the world, the Queen could have had a lavish welcome. But she vetoed that. Next morning she chatted at length with some 200 Dutch sailors at the Home for Netherlands Seamen, decorated eleven of them and one Dutch nurse for heroism in action. After 27 hours in the gaudiest city of the world, the plain, sensible Queen of The Netherlands returned to her Cape Cod cottage in Lee, there to carry on her affairs of state and her shopping...
...storms are always in the minds of Provincetowners. The town owns a number of dwellings officially called "Widows' Houses," where seamen's widows may live out their lonely lives rent free...
Well Done. Next morning, when a special bus with a State police escort came to take the merchant seamen away, first-aiders embraced them, townspeople waved, cheered them on their way. Then there was more work to do. Foot-weary village women returned to the hotel, swept, mopped, dusted, turned it back to the owner in the early afternoon, pin-clean and good...