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Forty-five minutes after he had plunged from the carrier, Lieut. Ladwig was pulled aboard a destroyer-after three of its crew had slipped from its net and had been fished out. The destroyer's skipper, noticing that Ladwig's breath was fumy with gasoline, ordered the ship's smoking lamp doused (i.e., "no smoking"). Only then did Ladwig feel it was safe to utter a long "Whew...
...Driver's Seat. First B-29 off the ground for the first Tokyo strike was Dauntless Dottie, piloted by Major Robert K. Morgan, onetime skipper of the famed B-17 Memphis Belle. Riding with him was the task-force commander, 38-year-old Brigadier General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., a veteran of the long, bitter delaying action early in the war when a handful of U.S. airmen fought and fell back from the Philippines to Java to Australia...
...Jane. Jane runs away, hides-then suddenly discovers she loves Bill. For a while they are passionately happy together. But a blackmailer who knows that Bill killed the bouncer suddenly turns up, demands a pound a week and Jane's favors. Jane kills him. Bill gives a crooked skipper ?100 to smuggle Jane out of the country...
...June 11, the Skipper, Bill Dean, led them over Guam and Rota. That day, for the first time, the Rippers flew on top of the war. June 19 Wilbur ("Spider") Webb slid into a flock of Jap dive bombers circling to land on Guam and knocked off six, ending his rampage with only one gun still working. On that day the Rippers got 51 planes in aerial combat, a record which the Rippers shattered themselves five days later by shooting down 67 planes over Iwo Jima...
Tomorrow the Skipper's pet party-the Navy Relief Dance, will be held in Potter Auditorium. According to Mrs. Inglis, the girls will be something special and since the affair has always been a success lets all continue the good work and make the dance something special. It's a worthy cause, for the motto of the Navy Relief Society is, "The Navy Takes Care...