Word: trawler
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...anticlimax. According to the communiqué finally issued last week by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet: 80% of little Marcus Island's military installations, seven twin-motored Jap bombers, hangars, fuel and ammunition dumps, shops and living quarters were destroyed; an enemy trawler was sunk. After pounding the 740-acre island for nine hours from the air, losing two fighters and one torpedo plane, the U.S. task force, commanded by air-minded Rear Admiral Charles Alan ("Baldy") Pownall, retired...
Lieut. Peter Markham Scott, Britain's No. 1 bird painter, son of the late great Antarctic Explorer Robert Scott, commanded light naval forces which left an armed enemy trawler ablaze after an encounter off Le Havre...
There were awards for dock laborers, trawler skippers, test pilots, A.R.P. workers, reception mothers for evacuees, and bus drivers; for farmers and miners; for clergymen and educators; for merchants, musicians and artists. Annie Norris, 67-year-old farm laborer's wife, received the British Empire Medal for "unremitting care" of child evacuees, as did a deaf & dumb air-raid warden, who divines air raids by the warning vibrations of a piece of metal held in his hand...
...Ventura was lost in the raid, which was made in daylight last evening. It followed attacks on enemy shipping off the Dutch coast, in which RAF Typhoons set afire one armed trawler without loss. Three, German planes were destroyed over British last night...
...with a wing tip, suddenly burst into a flower of flame and cut under the surface. Of 39 men & women aboard, 24 were lost. Among the missing: Musicomedienne Tamara (one of a party of USO entertainers), New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Ben Robertson. Three of the survivors rescued by trawler crews: Radio Singer Jane Froman, Nightclub Entertainer Gypsy Markoff, William Butterworth, First Secretary of the U.S. Legation in Lisbon. Rescued Captain R. O. D. Sullivan, pilot of the ship, had no explanation for the first fatal accident on Pan-American's Atlantic run since...