Word: seamens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like nearly 200 German seamen, seized in a dozen cities, including Miami, Kansas City, San Francisco, Chicago and Manhattan, two nights earlier, the Italian waiters were seized at Attorney General Jackson's orders. Most of those seized were not in hiding but it appeared that the Government meant to round up in advance transients from the Axis countries who might be potential enemy agents...
...Wilson, N.C., ten Italian officers and seamen were found guilty of sabotage of the seized Italian freighter Villarperosa, received sentences up to three years. First of 397 Italians, ten Germans up for trial, they got off easier than Robert Jackson wanted-he asked uniform sentences of five years for seamen, seven for officers...
...cruises will be run this year for persons enlisting in Class V-7 of the U. S. Naval Reserve, A. L. Madden, Lieutenant Commander, U. S. N. R., revealed last night. After a 30-day period as apprentice seamen, those who qualify will be given a 90-day course as reserve midshipmen and will receive commissions as reserve ensigns at the end of this time...
...cast anchor at the Government Anchorage, hard by the Staten Island ferry pier. Palm Sunday passengers noted the flag fluttering at her stern: the British ensign. Around 11 o'clock, half her crew went ashore for liberty, and Manhattanites soon knew what ship she was. On the seamen's flat-cap ribbons was the gilded legend: "H.M.S. Malaya...
...Axis commitments. They announced that there were 35 German officers, petty officers and seaman-gunners among the survivors. And the Admiralty declared: "It would have been possible to save 200 or 300 more but for attacks by German bombers on the ships engaged in the task of rescuing Italian seamen." Judging by the complements of the lost ships, about 1,500 Italians had perished...