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The closest thing to Hell on earth last week was in the midst of the sea-a tortured little patch of dismal grey rock some 235 miles south of Tokyo. For at least four weeks-since it was first sighted by the crew of a British destroyer-the islet, a...
My duties . . . carried me by Pier 6 yesterday where I spotted the sleek German cruiser Prinz Eugen. ... I went topside and sighted a trio of Kraut sailors frying spuds in a section of the galley. With inadequate college German I questioned the sailors carefully, with an eye toward their ideologies...
At 11:15, just as the Allied column was making the entrance of Sunda Strait, the Perth, in the van, sighted two Jap ships. Soon more appeared-the Allied ships had run into a Jap invasion armada of transports and their escort. The battle-if anything so one-sided could...
¶ At Leyte naval headquarters, the Indianapolis had been recorded as having arrived, when in fact she had not been sighted or heard from.
On the fifth floor, combatants were shepherded into a long, wide column. Thirty store detectives patrolled its edges, like cow hands riding herd on the old Chisholm Trail, eyes alert for mavericks. The column wound through vistas of antique furniture and past paintings of cows grazing in sylvan scenes. Once...