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...players and with only a week of practice behind them since the start of the new term, the Crimson informal Varsity gridmen will face their strongest opponents of the 1944 season Saturday afternoon at Soldiers Field, when they will oppose the powerful eleven from the McIville, R. I., Motor Torpedo Boat School...
Tokyo Radio boasted last week that three more Jap admirals had been killed in action. Proud total since Sept. 1: 22. By Tokyo's account, one of last week's casualties, Vice Admiral Nashaharu Arima, crashed his torpedo bomber into a U.S. aircraft carrier. The U.S. Navy acknowledged no such damage...
...admiral would be flying a torpedo bomber Tokyo did not even attempt to make clear. But there was a possible explanation in a recent speech by Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, head of the central headquarters of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association. Cried Colonel Hashimoto: "We must crash into the enemy in suicidal attacks at the front and at home . . . the only thing for us to do is to decide to die, so this burning determination may take the form of firepower in the general war situation...
They first encountered reality at Makin. They did not distinguish themselves. After Kwajalein they were packed back to Pearl Harbor to rejoin their own group for more training. In March the Rippers were sent off again, this time with their bomber and torpedo squadron colleagues of Air Group Two, aboard an Essex-class carrier...
Carroll F. Getchell, Director of the H.A.A., revealed yesterday that two more contest have tentatively been added to the Varsity football schedule. The Crimson will probably face Tufts here on Saturday, November 11, and will meet the Melville, Rhode island, Motor Torpedo Boat School one week later...