Word: troopships
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...about the four Chaplains who went down with a torpedoed troopship not so long ago. They had worked feverishly toward the successful evacuation of the vessel. They had given their life jackets to four soldiers who were without them. They were, all together, trapped with no chance of escape. They were last seen standing on the deck in prayer. They died side by side...
...troopship going out, Michael Heming scribbled melodies, started to outline a score for a threnody on war. He did more work during the blazing African summer, by autumn had a pocketful of penciled notes. The day before the tide turned at El Alamein, Lieut. Heming was killed in action. His mother found the notes in the packet of his personal things sent home...
Gradually the troopship drew away and at the end of the jetty that white-clad figure started Auld Lang Syne. As the gap grew, just snatches of the words came to us, and finally, just a picture of that solitary figure in white waving to us, and we swear she was still singing. We may forget many things of this war, but never the songs of Durban's lady in white. (From a magazine published on board a British troopship en route to India some time...
...raven-eyed nieces, 19 and 16, of imprisoned India Congress Leader Jawaharlal Nehru, arrived in Manhattan to enter Wellesley College. Chandralehka had been jailed by the British for seven months. She said she left jail with her political convictions stronger than when she entered. The sisters traveled on a troopship whose passengers included some wounded Marines from Guadalcanal. "We had a grand time with them," said Chandralehka. "We discussed Indian affairs all the time...
...touch it, went to the periscope, sank a Jap, came back, made a grand slam. But there were also serious yarns about his successes. Eleven ships, he said, was a little optimistic: it included two he was not certain about and two fishing sampans. He had chased a loaded troopship for several hours, finally sunk it. Altogether, he had sunk 69,000 tons of Japanese shipping...