Word: skippers
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...bullet got Wine in the head while he was still at his gun. A 20-mm. shell laid open the skipper's cheek. The nose gunner came back to help but a bullet hit the generator and it exploded and he died in the arms of Sergeant Howard Collett. Collett got out his Bible and began to read out loud: 'God so loved the world, that He gave . . .' Then a bullet hit Collett in the stomach...
...between the skipper and copilot. The cockpit was a mass of gore-I never saw such a sight, blood everywhere. The copilot was hit in both legs and while I was applying tourniquets to him, a 20-mm. hit the skipper in the left ankle and carried away his foot. But the copilot's controls had been shot out so the skipper had to fly her with one foot...
...kept on. He never lost his smile either. I was putting a tourniquet on his stump when shrapnel cut up his hands. Some of it hit me, but the skipper took the brunt...
...Japan go home to arm for war. In 1939, as skipper of the Astoria, he carried the ashes of Ambassador Hirosi Saito back to the land of his ancestors. At the time the Japanese said that they deeply appreciated the gesture...
...couldn't keep away from water. In the time he could spare from helping his father raise apples and peaches, he learned to row, eventually became the world's sculling champion. War brought Joe, appropriately, to the Navy. The Navy made him an officer and skipper of a speedy PT boat...