Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of the Student Council sub-committee include William W. Dunn '46, John W. Ellison '44, Maurice M. Osborne '45, Robert W Regan '46, and Paul D. Tibbetts...
Following the meeting the Council named a five-man sub-committee representing members of the three civilian Houses--Adams, Dunster, and Lowell...
...ship when the Navy took her over before the war. Three times she ran supplies into the Solomons under the bomb bays of Jap planes. On the fourth trip the Alchiba got it. Loaded with aviation gasoline, ammunition and bombs, she was riding at anchor off Guadal when a sub's torpedo blasted her. Gasoline and ammunition started going up. Her captain, Commander James S. Freeman, decided to try to save her, ordered up anchor and full speed ahead. Listing 18°, the Alchiba crunched on to the beach...
...sub rolled, her conning tower awash. Machine gunners on the patrol boat poured streams of bullets into the enemy craft. The forward deck gun crew got off one round?a direct hit on the conning tower?as the 487 circled to ram again. Now the submarine was almost entirely on the surface. The Little Fellow crashed into the Jap just forward of the conning tower, rolling the sub over. A wavering periscope scraped the side of the 487's hull, broke a stanchion on deck and came within an inch of decapitating Skipper Cornell...
...afterdeck gun crew got into action, pumping five shells into the sub. The Jap's bow rose in the air, hung for a moment, then the enemy vessel plunged beneath the surface, stern first, at a 45-degree angle. Fifteen minutes after she had been sighted, the sub was one of the most definite kills of the war. The Little Fellow, somewhat banged up, made emergency repairs and limped home to a thundering welcome of cheers and whistle blasts...