Word: torpedoman
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When PT-109 was rammed by a Japanese destroyer, two members of Lieut, (j.g.) John F. Kennedy's crew lost their lives. The skipper wrote to relatives of both men, praising their heroism, and to the widow of Torpedoman Second Class Jack Kirksey Kennedy wrote four letters. "If a captain is fortunate," said the first, "he finds one man in his crew who contributes more than his share. Jack Kirksey was that man." Last week the letters brought $9,500 in Manhattan, highest price yet paid at auction for a memento of the late President...
...much realism into his acting that a viewer in Chicago phoned in to find out if he were actually a Marine radar operator. The answer: no. Steiger is a 27-year-old professional actor. During World War II, he got as far from aircraft as possible: he was torpedoman in a submarine...
...which two men with "artificial lungs" succeeded in escaping (TIME, Feb. 18) was on the point of starting north last week when the Navy Department sent instructions to try it deeper. Obediently the S-4 was towed out and sunk twice again, at 160 ft., at 200 ft. Chief Torpedoman Edward Kalinowski climbed through the escape hatch. He released a cork buoy attached to a life line, the other end of which was fastened to the submarine. Then grasping the life line he ascended. He was followed by Lieut. Charles B. Momsen, co-inventor of the mechanical "lung" (oxygen mask...
...into seven fathoms of blue Gulf Stream water off Key West last week, carrying a trapped crew of 15 volunteers. The U. S. S. Mallard (tender) stood by. After 15 minutes a black buoy bobbed up among the waves. Three anxious minutes crawled by. Then the head of Chief Torpedoman Edward Kalinowski plopped out on the surface. A minute later Lieut. Charles B. Momsen emerged. They were the first two U. S. submariners ever to escape directly from a sunken craft...
...President personally hung the Congressional Medal of Honor around the neck of Henry Breault, torpedoman, second class, U. S. N. On Oct. 28, 1923, Breault was aboard the submarine O-5 sunk in Limon Bay off the Panama Canal in collision with the merchantship Abangares. He reached the deck before the submarine sank, discovered that one of his comrades was trapped below. He rushed down, shut a water-tight door and remained with his shipmate until the submarine was raised by a salvage party 38 hours later...
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