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...rescue of torpedoed seamen from the North Atlantic, Lieut. Henry Keene Jr. lost part of a tooth in an underwater fight with a drowning man, but hauled him in. Half-hour earlier he had gone overside to rescue a mongrel dog, got a Humane Society medal and the dog for his reward...
Hard College Years. The boys will find college no romp. They will be uniformed, on active duty (as apprentice seamen, buck privates), carry heavy class schedules. But military activities will be subordinated to academic training. Some opportunity will be given for athletics...
Periodic tests will winnow the unfit, return them to the ranks. The colleges, not the armed forces, will prepare most of the courses and set examinations according to their individual standards. Terms of study for apprentice seamen will range between eight months (aviators) and four years (chaplains, doctors, dentists). Both Army and Navy programs include some liberal arts subjects...
...bombers. So there is more doing in the U.S. dive-bombing field than the conversion of fighters to double duty. To supersede the SBD, both Douglas and Curtiss are building specialized dive-bombring aircraft, with less speed than fighters, but more range, more load. And over areas where U.S. seamen or soldiers fight, dive-bombers will still come howling down...
...program will be inaugurated about July 1 when men from V-1 and V-7 will be called to active duty as Apprentice Seamen, provided they are able to meet the Navy requirements of curriculum which include compulsory physical drills, swimming and setting up exercises...