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Dangerous Pets. In Manhattan, United Seamen's Service headquarters instructed its branches to stop sending gift cats to U.S. tanker crews. Reason: the static electricity in their fur makes them fire hazards...
...Since Sept. 6 when I left Mitscher's flagship, I have watched the Palau and Philippine operations from five big carriers, five destroyers, one cruiser, one tanker. During the strike at Manila Bay I was on the bridge. Suddenly the squawk-box warned: 'Four Jap planes closing in,' and our ships moved into tight anti-aircraft formation. Through our ear-cotton the flash of guns sounded like a mad symphony on kettle drums. A Jap fighter made two strafing passes at our stern and got away with it, but a minute later I watched him dog-fighting...
...seven and a half months his squadron sank 43 Jap ships, probably sank or damaged 91 others. But Miller's most brilliant record is his own. He himself definitely sank 20 of those ships, totaling 35,500 tons, among them a destroyer and a 10,000-ton tanker; probably sank or damaged 46 totaling 28,350 tons, among them a light cruiser, a destroyer, two destroyer escorts. (Not included in that record: barges, sail boats, sampans. Miller sank so many that he was too embarrassed to report them...
...Henry Kaiser's shipyards in the Northwest went back to a seven-day week. The reason: inability to obtain 10,000 additional workers needed to keep pace with tanker and transport building schedules. But at the Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Shipyard at Baltimore, the keel was laid for a sleek, 9,902-ton freighter intended for the postwar services of the American Export Lines to Mediterranean and Indian ports...
Quick to throw their hats in the air were the members of the Senate Military Affairs Committee who had blocked Patton's promotion since last October. In the sudden new acclaim for Tanker Patton, Albert ("Happy") Chandler rose hurriedly and intoned: "At this hour he [Patton] is perhaps the greatest tank soldier in the world ... I have changed my mind...