Word: signalman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home. None of the girls had been to the U.S. before, almost all were young (average age: 20), some had small babies (there were 14 in all). Very few of them had seen their husbands for many a month. Said blue-eyed, self-assured Mavis, who met her signalman husband Edward Austin Humphreys at a Sydney zoo more than two years ago: "You know I'm forgetting how he looks and how he talks...
...last week Heidt Time produced two apparently bona fide candidates. One was a signalman who had served on the aircraft carrier Enterprise', the other was a U.S. Army tank-destroying veteran of Tunisia. Both men got job offers...
...terse message went back to the task unit's flagship, the U.S.S. Card, an unarmored merchant ship equipped with an aircraft landing deck: "Scratch one pig-boat-am searching for more." The Borie found another huge pigboat on the surface. Cried a signalman: "My God, what is it, the Bremen?" In ten to 30 seconds the Bone's guns swept the sub's deck. The destroyer leaped forward to ram, went partly over, her bow straddling the U-boat's forward deck. There she stuck. For ten feverish minutes the Borie poured metal from...
...plain that they were depending more heavily on another weapon. The frantic enemy was firing torpedo spreads. I had turned away, momentarily blinded by gun glare, and was hanging on to the bridge shield when I saw the white track of a torpedo shooting straight for us. A signalman saw it too, and yelled, but it was too late to turn...
...Lieut-Comdr. William B. Dortoh, USNR, for dePauw University, III., where he will be commanding officer of the V-12 Unit, while Ensign Frank W. Patrick, USNR, formerly chief Specialist in charge of Navy Scl physical training, will direct the V-12 athletics at the University of Minnesota. Chief Signalman Kurt R. Groote...