Word: shipboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Craps is a minor sport on shipboard. Crapshooters lose their balance and their money slides with the ship's roll...
...Marines are first shown singing, loafing, ribbing each other aboard ship, responding quietly to the ground swell of their anticipation and their ignorance, taking very lightly (in a fine, honest scene) the reading-aloud of the rather pompous order which first tells them where they are going. These shipboard scenes and those in which the Marines land, find no enemy, and only slowly begin to learn about Jap snipers, are among the most real in the picture...
...Company "old salts" raised, a pertinent question at the same time--while he was on watch. "Where is the Joe-Pot," said he, referring to that omnipresent reminder, of shipboard tradition, the Java kettle...
...surprised Jap manned his shore batteries and his shipboard antiaircraft. Only one fighter rose to intercept. Desperately it flung down on one of the big American bombers, locked wings and fell from the sky, bringing its victim with it. That was the only American loss. The planes returned to their Australian base, having successfully completed the second longest air raid for land-based bombers in the Pacific War-1,000 miles...
...present all large ships carry a chaplain, and soon battleships, carriers and hospital ships will each have two. Men on destroyers and submarines see a chaplain when their vessels meet larger craft. For shipboard service men "rig for church" by setting up an altar, raising the blue and white church flag during hymns, prayers and sermon...