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...Zeros at the Battle of Midway. "The squadron was like a raw egg thrown into an electric fan, and only three men came out of the action alive." Reformed, Torpedo 8 was flung straight into the Battle for the Solomons under the leadership of ardent, painstaking "Swede" Larsen. Armed with stubby Grumman Avengers, Torpedo 8 changed its old slogan from "Attack" to "Attack-and Vengeance...
...nearest big one," said Swede Larsen over the radio, and these "were the only words uttered by anybody during the whole attack." Northwest of the target hung a purple curl of cloud. Torpedo-planes sheltering in it would have a vital 20 seconds' protection from the Jap gun ners before emerging on the very nose of the target...
...Swede made for the cloud. The squadron followed him in attack formation. On the ships below little orange lights flickered at him like fireflies. He watched them become "strange black chrysanthemum-shaped puffs of smoke [which] began to walk toward him, each flower-like puff with large hurtling chunks of steel for petals...
Rossby agrees with Professor Parr that no one knows much about weather; meteorologists still have no precise idea, for example, why some clouds drop rain and others do not. But Carl Rossby, a moon faced, jolly Swede, has turned up many another useful fact about weather since he arrived in the U.S. and went to work for the Weather Bureau...
...Swede is one of the healthiest and handsomest physical types in the world. Politically and economically, he is mature, practical, cooperative. Psychologically, he is the victim of the national claustrophobia which torments all small European nations. Diplomatically, he intends to remain neutral during World War II, just as he did during World War I, and for more than 100 years before that. But there are limits...