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With him were Lieut. Robert Kelly and Ensign George E. Cox Jr., fellow torpedo-boat heroes from Bataan. They all looked just as unhappy, just as frozen-faced...
That day on the sunbathed Coral Sea the Jap caught hell. The bombers piled in after the Navy, and planes from both branches went after the enemy hot & heavy with flat bombers, dive-bombers and torpedo-carriers. It was too much. Airmen finally saw the Jap swing around to the north. He had had enough...
...able to lubricate, disassemble and make ready the torpedo. Know the names and be able to recognize the use of all special tools used with torpedoes. Be able to charge a torpedo and to handle war heads. Understand and be able to trace fuel, air, water and oil lines in torpedoes. Be able to balance a gyro and know the theory of the gyro. Be able to carry out all regulations in regard to care, repair and tests of torpedo and torpedo mechanisms. Know the application of Ohm's law, Kirzchoff's law and other principles of electricity. Understand Navy...
...navies go, the U.S. Navy is not conservative. It pioneered in dive-bombing, in landings and take-offs from carrier decks, in torpedo-plane attack. But the Navy is conservative, if not downright shortsighted, in its officer promotion system...
...instance, more than half of the Schwinn plant, where American light-weights were first built in quantity, has been converted to the making of secret torpedo parts, and no bicycles have come off the production line since government freezing orders a month...