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If Pérez Serantes so far lacks solid church backing, the fact remains that he is Cuba's most respected prelate. "Not in vain," said he, "have some clear-sighted persons been preparing to fight those who try to impose the heavy yoke of the new slavery."
Nominally, the trip was a shakedown cruise, but in laying down the global underseas voyage, the Navy also prescribed a variety of psychological experiments for the crew, as well as hydrographic tests, drills in reconnaissance and evasion of detection (Triton was never sighted by ship or plane). For good measure...
One July day in 1938, thumbing through a pile of story clips, City Editor Harry F. Reutlinger of Hearst's Chicago evening American turned up an item reporting that a missing U.S. flyer named Douglas Corrigan had been sighted off the Irish Coast. Reutlinger promptly put in transatlantic phone...
The episode of the Bismarck was one of the more peculiar and dramatic sea fights of World War II. On May 21, 1941, the day after the German invasion of Crete, the 45,000-ton battleship Bismarck was reported steaming out of the Kattegat into the North Sea, escorted by...
Early on the morning of Feb. 9, Sargo's sophisticated SINS (for Ship's Inertial Navigation System) picked out the Pole. Up poked the sub's massive sail, i.e., superstructure, lifting with it a three-foot layer of ice. Crewmen axed through the ice, climbed down a...