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...Philippine hills, there are still several hundred Japanese soldiers holding out in isolated misery, unaware that World War II is over. Occasionally one gives up. Not so Seaman Noboru Kinoshita, who escaped from a sinking troopship off the Philippines in 1944. For eleven years, Seaman Kinoshita lived on lizards, frogs, fruit and wild monkeys in the jungles of Luzon awaiting the day when a victorious Japanese navy would come to rescue him. That day never dawned, but last fortnight, as he raided a jungle-side sweet-potato patch, Kinoshita was picked up by Philippine police. "When," he asked, "will...
...Carl Milles' 38-figure Fountain of Faith (TIME COLOR PAGES, June 27), unveiled its second major sculpture grouping: Nivola's $50,000 memorial fountain dedicated to the four World War II Army chaplains* who gave their life jackets to enlisted men and went down with the torpedoed troopship Dorchester in the North Atlantic...
...epic sea rescue in which 1420 persons were taken off a blazing British troopship near Algiers Sunday was a triumph of the English national character, Robert G. Albion, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, said last night...
...troopship Empire Windrush, bearing British service men and their families home from imperial outposts in the Far and Middle East, was sailing through the Mediterranean at 7 a.m. Sunday when an explosion occurred in its boiler room. Four crew members working in the room were immediately killed and within a half hour the whole ship was aflame...
...first Kungsholm, originally leased for a year from the Holland-American Line, was scrapped in 1929 by HAL. The second Kungsholm, built in 1928, became famed as a cruise ship in the 19303, was taken over by the U.S. in late 1941 and converted into a troopship. Renamed the Italia, she is now owned by Italy's Home Lines, Inc., and operates on a North Atlantic...