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...those smug, complacent people are playing with human lives! The trickle of beautiful planes comes over and we look up and say to each other: "Just think of what a thousand, five thousand of them could do." You don't feel that; we do. The seamen whose ships have been blown from under them talk of the useless waste because helpless boats are not convoyed. You haven't spoken to such men, I have. The stunned, half-dead sailors adrift for weeks on a raft-you haven't seen them, I have. And "little steel" asks...
Navy airmen, he said, "have never talked as well as they have flown. . . . Being seamen as well as airmen, when our patrol planes saw something they always knew what kind of a ship they saw. They didn't report a fishing boat as a large transport or say that a southbound ship was going north." And Tommy Hart bit hard when he wrote of a Navy plane flying from the Philippines Christmas Eve, "carrying several high-ranking Army air officers who had no other...
...Naval Aviation Training program (V-5), students are not called until they have had two and one-half years of college. They are required to take the same screen-out examination as V-1 members, and, like V-1 men, may escape service as seamen if they fail by applying for immediate aviation service...
...Russian hosts knew how to fight, and also how to play. Cockney ratings, Scottish coxswains, Yankee seamen recorded their approval and respect in the visitors' book. Wrote Scotsman Frank Rogers: "The U.S.S.R. is a wonderful country with magnificent people. I hope that friendship between the U.S.S.R. and England will be even stronger after...
Major Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late Teddy, took part in his first action against the Japs-a reconnaissance flight over Kiska. Back home, his 20-room manor at Oyster Bay, L.I., was opened as a convalescent home for torpedoed merchant seamen. Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, reviewing a parade of WAACs at Fort Des Moines, congratulated the leader of the winning group of marchers so successfully that Margaret M. Wheatley burst into tears. Emily Bradley Saltonstall, daughter of Massachusetts' Governor, enlisted in the WAVES in Boston as an apprentice seaman. Alfred Ryder, 26, long the "Sammy" of Radio...