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Photographic Commissar. Under command of Lieut. Donald Sheely, 34, the Minnesota-born, Annapolis-trained executive officer, Hale's motor whaleboat approached the trawler's starboard quarter, was waved to the portside where a ladder was lowered. Lieut. Sheely led his unarmed, three-man boarding party on deck without opposition. Aboard Novorossisk he found 48 men and six women, most of them wearing quilted, heavy-duty fishing garb, all obviously hard-working fishermen-all, that is, except for one commissar type in horn-rimmed glasses and brass-buttoned uniform, who photographed the boarding with an expensive camera...
...Columbia -but to leeward. Shields merely tacked to get free air, and walked away from Vim to finish with the wide lead of 4 min. i sec. Next day, before the gun, Mosbacher got astern of Columbia as Shields maneuvered toward the starting line. Both boats were on the starboard tack (wind over the right side), and Shields was trapped. He could not come about onto the port tack to get to the line without violating Mosbacher's right of way under racing rules. Mosbacher deftly drove Shields well beyond the marking buoy, then suddenly came about and crossed...
After that the war seemed remote for Indianapolis: the orders were to proceed alone from Guam to Leyte for training exercises. In the dark first moments of July 30, she was halfway to Leyte. With no warning cry from any lookout, there were two tremendous explosions on the starboard side. Precisely how many men the blasts killed will never be known. In about twelve minutes-at 0014-the Indianapolis sank, throwing some 850 officers and men into the water. They had life jackets and a few rafts, but no boats...
...plane lifted into the darkness, bound for disaster. Just beyond the field's edge, the right wing dipped; men on the ground saw its green starboard light go down slowly, then sharply, had a swift vision of the pilots fighting for control over what seemed a power failure. Cocoa was gone; its right wing dug into the ground as its uplifted left wing snapped into high tension wires strung 70 ft. above the ground. About 45 seconds after the big aircraft had begun rolling, it skittered through fields, bounced across the Massachusetts Turnpike, exploded with a shattering roar...
...note of possible trouble for this weekend was the absence of number three man Mike Zuromkis from practice on Monday and Tuesday because of a bad back. Love switched T. Swayze from the starboard side to fill Zuromki's seat and brought Claude Nuzum up from the J.V.'s. The crew was able to get in two hard practices in spite of the change, and Love felt that it probably did not hurt the boat...