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...suicidal. Last week the Navy confirmed reports that the Japs were building a special Kamikaze plane, with a cockpit into which the pilot is locked before the takeoff. The plane (reportedly in production in Manchuria) is a pusher type, engine and propeller at the rear of the fuselage. Its torpedo-like nose carries a long ton (2,240 Ibs.) of explosive, fused to let go upon impact of nose or wings...
June Havoc, blonde, scene-stealing Broadway musicomedienne, invited to a destroyer launching by Navy Lieut. George Gay Jr.-only survivor of Midway-famed Torpedo Squadron 8-gaily stole the Navy's show. The ship had hardly been christened H. J. Ellison (in honor of the Squadron 8 hero) when June turned to her host and cried: "George, I love you so much!" George blushingly admitted to reporters that June was his "girl...
...directly responsible for the Navy's improved press relations in the Pacific is Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' able new press chief, Captain Harold B. ("Min") Miller, 42, an Annapolis-trained airman, torpedo expert, author (short stories in Cosmopolitan, American Magazine), former U.S. Naval Air Attache in London. Captain Miller, who wrote the fast and full communique on the Battle of the Philippine Sea, a model of its kind, is the most likely candidate to become the Navy's top public relations man when and if Rear Admiral A. S. ("Tip") Merrill goes back to sea. Captain Miller...
...rough-and-tumble contest was largely similar to the 47 to 35 licking which the Crimson suffered at the Motor Torpedo Boat Base in Rhode Island last month. In handing the Varsity its twelfth defeat of the campaign, Melville showed an edge in height, experience, and stamina which proved too much for the Stahlmen...
After only the merest taste of victory last weekend, Coach Floyd Stahl's Crimson quintet went down to their eighth defeat of the campaign 47 to 34 Wednesday as they met a polished group of ball-handlers at Melville Motor Torpedo Boat S.T.C...