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There were fireworks that night in Honolulu. And while Commander Rodgers, relieved from duty, began a 16-hour sleep in a bed with sheets and a pillow, the newspapers of the world were thundering the news of his rescue, telling of his service record, of his famous naval forebears. They...
In 1917, two weeks before war was declared, the "Unit," expanded to 29 members, was "ordered" from college by the Navy Department to its self-appointed training school, with seaplanes and mechanics provided by private subscription. There were no uniforms, no drills, no salutes. There were the "Lieut," the naval...
Sleeked with sandpaper and rubbed down until not so much as a varnish blister marred its swift stream lines, a U. S. seaplane took off at the Bayshore aerodrome near Baltimore, slithered like a curving bullet round the seven laps of the 50 meter Schneider Trophy course. "Click!" went the...
(TIME, June 22 et seq.), last week crossed icy Davis Strait to Jack Lane's Bay, Labrador. The Bow-doiris forecastle was awash, a 400-lb. drum of gasoline had been swept overboard, a rare specimen or two collected by Naturalist Walter N. Koelz had been lost; but all...
Submarines, seaplanes, and other naval craft put to sea. They found the spot of the wreck where bubbles of air boiled upward to the surface of the water. Divers went down and found the ship. They tapped her sides but no answering tap came from within. Yet hope was not...