Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dense fog somewhere off the St. Lawrence last week the Canadian destroyer Assiniboine, her starboard deck ablaze, rammed and sank a German sub after twelve hours of close-range fighting on the surface. The Canadians saw the Nazi commander killed in his conning tower by a 4.7-inch shell. As the battered Assiniboine closed in to ram, one of its depth charges landed directly on the sub's narrow deck, rolled off, and exploded beneath the surface. The surviving Germans surrendered and were rescued (see cut) as their seawolf sank. The U-boat was, perhaps, the one whose badly...
...Berlin taps were sounded for another U-boat master, Lieut. Commander Rolf Muetzelburg, bearer of the oak leaves on the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The fifth of Germany's top sub men killed in action, Muetzelburg had evidently been trapped on the conning tower when his U-boat crash-dived...
...sink. Buckmaster ordered tugs and salvage vessels. The next day 160 picked men reboarded the carrier. They worked all night pumping out holds and cutting guns from the lower side. The destroyer Hammann was standing by to furnish power for the pumps. The next noon a Jap sub launched two torpedoes into the carrier's weakened plates and sank the destroyer with two more. The concussion broke several men's feet. Lieut. Commander Ernest Davis was blown overboard. Many men had broken arms and legs. The explosion made a hole in the Yorktown's port side from...
George Hibbard, first-line sub for mammoth Vern Miller, and Russ Stannard, who should be one of the stand-out linemen in the nation this year, will be the bulwarks of the emerald barrier, while acting Captain Bill Barnes and Cummings, subbing for injured Don Forte, complete the roster. Whether they can stand up under the block-busters that Sleepy Jim will hurl at them is yet to be seen...
...program, the V-1 classification has been sub-divided into V-1 (G), deck and engineering classification, and V-1 (S), for specialists. A reduction in eye requirements from 18/20 to 12/20 correctible to 20/20 has been made for those in V-1 (S). Premedical students entering either of these two categories are exempt from the normally required physics and math. They need not take the qualifying exam of the Sophomore year, and, if they do not, will be retained in class V-1 until accepted or rejected from medical school...