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Steps toward Rescue. Continuous rowing uses up more energy than it is worth. When in a lifeboat "do not sing or shout. By doing so you use up your strength and lose valuable water in your breath." Mirages occur at sea as in the desert. "Men adrift in northern latitudes sometimes imagine they can see things which are not there, such as smoke, sails, ships or land. It does not mean that you are out of your mind or even lightheaded. Make very sure that all of you see the same object before wasting your strength in pulling toward...
Over his ship's speaker system, Oct. 26, Captain Gatch asked his men if they were ready. Bulkheads rattled the shout of 2,000 men: "Aye, aye, sir!" The first attack lasted eight minutes. The enemy threw in 20 dive-bombers. The battleship spoke with all its voices: the huge grump-grump of 5-inch all-purpose secondary batteries, the more frenetic chattering of smaller pieces...
Pilots back from Guadalcanal last week told a tall bird story. A marine, they said, captured a wild parrot and taught it to shout: "Hello, Joe!" as greeting to any Jap. He took the parrot to the front lines, where it shouted the greeting all day. Other parrots, free in the jungle, learned the greeting. Soon the jungle behind the Jap lines resounded with nerve-racking U.S. accents: "Hello, Joe! ... Hello, Joe! . . . Hello...
There was no official comment from London on the request. There was, however, a new account of how Malta carries on. An Englishwoman just returned to Britain reported that every time the sirens sounded she headed for the deep shelters. "Hey! How many?" she would shout to Maltese urchins along the way. If they answered: "Nine Stukas," she hurried on. If they answered: "Musso come today-spaghetti-not too much good-go home...
...blockade. The ship was sunk 200 miles off Java. Another enlisted man who is no longer with the 19th is 19-year-old Private Arvid Hegdahl, tail gunner of a Flying Fortress. After he shot down a Zero his leg was almost blown off, but he continued to shout encouragement to other members of the crew. When the time came to evacuate Java he had to be left in a hospital...