Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peter Macgowan '42, who yesterday was elected chairman of the committee, will soon appoint the member of the various sub-committees, which up until this time have either had only one member or none...
...four fighter planes still on the island (eight had been smashed by the enemy) or by fire from his six 5-in. guns, little Jimmie Devereux sank the cruiser and one of the destroyers. He reported it tersely to Honolulu. Later he reported his men had sunk a Nip sub...
...sub was quite close to our boat, and we could see the outline of the superstructure in the water. If we had had a deck gun we could have...
These two baby giant pandas (escorted by Zoologist John Tee-Van,) arrived safely in San Francisco last week after a hazardous journey by plane from Chungking to Manila, by ship from Manila to Hawaii, through the sub marine-infested Pacific in the first convoy to reach the West Coast since the Japanese attack. Captured last summer in the cool hills of inner China, they are presented to the U.S. by Mme. Chiang Kai-shek in gratitude for the activities of United China Relief. In a new, barless $15,000 home at New York City's Bronx...
...Agwiworld radioed a warning to the Navy, then ran for cover. The sub fired eight shots from a deck gun, one severing a halyard and the rest whistling overhead, before giving up the chase. Said Captain F. B. Goncalves, safe in port: "If we had only had a gun. ... It was a beautiful target for us." More than the raid on Pearl Harbor, the attacks on the tankers brought to many an unimaginative citizen realization that the U.S. was at war. That war was more tangible than it seemed even on the afternoon...