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With the first organizational work completed, the officers in charge of the Navy V-12 plan have released additional information concerning the make-up of the Unit in its present form, and the outlook for the Apprentice Seamen now residing in Kirkland and Eliot Houses...
King George VI flew to North Africa last week to review victorious Allied troops and seamen. He did a thorough, workmanlike, pleasant job. He reviewed British troops, troops of the U.S. Fifth Army. He ate lunch with U.S. officers, joked, laughed, praised the food. He visited battlefields, British and American cemeteries, hospitals, warships, airfields. He attended church at a naval chapel, talked with sailors, admirals, merchant mariners, nurses, wounded veterans, privates and generals. Everyone seemed pleased with him. He seemed pleased with everyone...
Harvard's full wartime schedule will start off with a bang on July 1 as about-700 reserve apprentice seamen are activated at the College. All these men will be under the V-12 program under Captain George N. Barker, USN, head of all Navy Training Schools here. The group will include members of the Naval Reserve Officers Training program, long a fixture at the College, former V-1, V-7, and V-5 members including a large number of pre-medical students, and new Freshmen accepted to V-12 while in secondary school...
...much new information has been released about the details of the setup. Except for the NROTC all the men will be uniformed as apprentice seamen third class. Their textbooks will be issued by the Navy through the University, although this allotment will probably only include standard texts...
...takes strength, wisdom and the ability to make quick decisions. A.B.C. commanded the Scorpion for seven years, and gave her sting. Once in the Aegean he took her right into the mouth of an enemy harbor with bridge defenses rigged, the upper deck clear of men, and seamen with rifles manning the bridge loopholes and mess-deck scuttles; and he conducted a rifle action against land troops at a range of 50 yards...