Word: seamens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unseen by the raider, the last boat, a 16-ft. jolly boat containing seven men (the ship's chief officer, third engineer, wireless operator, gunner, three seamen), got safely away...
...rowed and rowed westward, under a maddening heat. On the tenth day, the wireless operator died. Four men jumped overboard. Only men alive after 25 days were Able Seamen Wilbert Roy Widdicombe, 24, and Robert George Tapscott...
Wrote one correspondent, who had the temerity to ride into the struggle on a battleship: "Hardened seamen on the battleship . . . cursed and shook their fists as German bombers, roaring in for the kill after scoring a hit in the magazine of a destroyer, dumped bombs around sailors struggling in the water and swooped down with their machine guns blazing...
...President Roosevelt in an open letter to Chairman Emory-Land of the Maritime Commission declared: "I know . . . that more and faster ships will be built, manned by trained American seamen, and that they will carry through the open waters of the seven seas implements that will help destroy the menace to free peoples everywhere...
...they attacked the French Fleet at Oran, not so much because the French were shot down like sitting ducks, but because the British action showed so little faith in the honor of the French naval tradition. It is also axiomatic that the opinion of the French Navy's seamen is so doubtful that they might mutiny against any orders to fight Britain. At any rate, the Admiral of the French Fleet today loathes the British. Of Dunkirk he has recently said: "That was glorious. I also remember Oran. That was shameful." Of the British blockade he has said: "Germans...