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...waning moonlight, the skipper of the heavy cruiser Los Angeles, Captain Robert N. McFarlane, brought his ship about and within range parallel to the coast. From the naval post ashore came the map coordinates of the Red troops. In Lieut, Donald A. Marksheffel's main battery plotting room, seamen worked out range and meteorological data, fed it into a boxlike mechanical computer. The No. 3 gun turret swung around toward the target, its 8-in. muzzles rising slowly. Marksheffel dropped a hand, and a seaman pressed a warning buzzer three times with his left hand. With his right...
...once been an island in an ancient lake. The inscription was written in more than 200 runes, the ancient alphabet of the Norse. Ever since the carving was first translated, the Kensington Stone has been one of the most fascinating exhibits in the history of the daring Norse seamen...
...checked up . . . The Japanese high command expected on Sunday morning the American fleet would be crippled for fighting by the drinking of Saturday. In fact, the Saturday night before the attack, we, aviators, also expected through the Honolulu radio that there would be very much drinking among American seamen and soldiers. It might be payday and the drink-shops would be running full steam. We heard jazz from the Honolulu radio through the night. We smiled because we knew very well for the result . . . There would be oversleeping and unpreparedness...
...Eighteen anti-Communist seamen, who jumped ship from the Polish liner Batory at Durham, England...
...Ystad harbor, vacationers milled around the docked minesweeper, watched the smiling faces of the seamen on deck and (peeking through the mess porthole) the sour faces of the officers. Swedish authorities handed the ship back to the Polish captain, who headed home. Of the 16 mutineers, four at the last minute decided to go back to Communist Poland, fearing reprisals against their...