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...Brooklyn, N. Y., started out to be a teacher, got a Columbia University degree this year. Last week Messrs. Mishanec, Croft, Scaturo and 14 other young men of similar ages, backgrounds, prospective vo cations, acquired the rating and emoluments ($114 per month, with allowances) of second-class seamen, U. S. Navy. They slept in double-decker beds, jammed to gether in the neat, small Naval Air Reserve Station at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Airport. They stepped to the commands of a leathery Marine Corps sergeant. They scrubbed, greased, cranked, shoved, other wise manhandled a yellow Navy training plane, performed...
...with only an hour's exercise, saw no newspapers, were not even allowed watches. Inveterate house of Commons questioner Laborite Emanuel Shinwell thereupon visited Pentonville himself, angrily clucked: "I think we've gone crazy. We've lumped into Pentonville . . . doctors, scientists, men of color and Chinese seamen. Some of the 'suspects' are Latvian, Estonian and Dutch sailors. Some were on vessels heavily bombed by the Germans. Some were in the water for hours before being picked up. Now to their amazement they find themselves in jail...
...Strait of Juan de Fuca and into Puget Sound the slim-hulled Coast Guard cutter Perseus pushed her nose last week. She tied up at Seattle and sent her crew ashore on liberty. Some of her seamen were less than judicious in what they had to tell friends and newspaper reporters. The Perseus had been on patrol in Bering Strait where only 54 miles of water separates Continental Alaska from Continental Siberia. Out in the Strait, the Perseus had stopped at U. S.-owned Little Diomede Island with a mission: to find out what was afoot on Soviet-owned...
...accurate. The plain fact is that John Paul Jones operated out of a French base, Brest. France was then at war with England also. His ship was actually an old French merchant ship, his three consorts (Alliance, Pallas and Vengeance) were commanded by French officers, manned by French seamen. Of Jones's own crew more than half were non-American. The captured Serapis was given to France. About the only things American about this whole fight were Jones, Richard Dale, and the American flag flying, when the Richard settled to the bottom...
Last fortnight, off the Mediterranean pirates' 15th-Century stronghold at Mers-el-Kebir, France's Navy added its own postscript. It was put down in the blood of a thousand French gobs, gay in their red pompons and striped shirts, who had frolicked with British seamen on shore leave below Oran's quake-shattered Kasbah. It was put down in the hulk of the Dunkerque, France's answer to Germany's pocket battleships, now beached and battered by British bombs on the Barbary coast. It was repeated in the draggle-tailed flight of the crippled...