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...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 be called a battle...
...boss was a little man with a neat white mustache and strait-laced ideals. He hung pictures of another great Texan on every wall at the plant, drummed Davy Crockett's motto ("Be sure you're right, then go ahead") into Son E. M. ("Ted") Dealey...
Last Port. In some ways, Pat had been lucky. Seventy-one of her sister destroyers had been lost in the oceans of the world; their bones lay in Iron Bottom Bay, in Bali Strait, in watery locations marked simply...
...unbearably long days & nights, when the mental strait jacket of Army discipline and regimentation seemed strangling, I had dreamed of "the moment." Now, at 4:22, I was a free man. But it didn't turn out like the dream...
...British were sweeping mines from Malacca Strait, preparing for the occupation of the Netherlands East Indies...