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Panting & Pantsless. That night, ready to row back to his submarine, Clark took off his trousers to prevent their getting soaked as he helped push his boat into the breakers. In his hurry, he left the trousers on the beach, arrived panting and pantsless on the sub. Three weeks later Clark got a package from Murphy: it contained his trousers, freshly cleaned and pressed. The result of the Clark expedition and Murphy's work: French collaboration made the Allied invasion immeasurably easier...
...steaming Philippine jungle, John Linehan spent three years dodging Japanese soldiers' bullets and harassing the enemy. The Japanese never hurt him, but the jungle did. Suffering beriberi, malaria and enteritis, he lost 80 Ibs. By the time a U.S. sub evacuated Linehan, he had to be carried aboard...
Triton is the largest submarine ever launched. She displaces 5,850 tons, measures 447½ ft. in length and 37 ft. at the beam, carries two nuclear reactors and a crew of 148, can make a zippy 30 surface knots. By comparison the Nautilus, first U.S. nuclear sub, displaces 2,980 tons, is 300 ft. long, has a 28-ft. beam, one reactor. The Triton, in fact, is not much smaller and slower than a light cruiser of the U.S.'s San Diego class...
...sound-detection devices measured the distance to the ice above and the thickness of the ice while three other devices sounded the sea bed. Findings: polar ice is generally about 12 ft. thick, although some ridges bulged down 50 ft. or more. Crew comforts were also measuring up: the sub's crew was treated to more than 30 movies, e.g., Katharine Hepburn in Desk Set, and cribbage, chess and acey-deucey tournaments were under way as the Nautilus headed toward history...
...Anderson went to the White House, briefed the President for 25 minutes. Then the President, Anderson and his wife Bonnie, and a small group of Navy and Atomic Energy Commission brasshats formed up before 75 newsmen in the White House conference room. (Not invited and thus snubbed: A-Sub Pioneer Rickover, whose prickly personality is still anathema to some Navy brass.) There the President pinned the Legion of Merit on Commander Anderson, awarded the first Presidential Unit Citation ever given in peacetime to SSN 571-U.S.S. Nautilus...