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...Navy's rocket-belching LSMR, improvised in the middle of World War II, was an efficient, lethal little vessel. As a curtain raiser to amphibious landings, it could briefly match the firepower of a modern cruiser with its close-in salvos of rockets. The enemy on the beach quickly came to respect its sting, but the unhappy crewmen aboard just as quickly discovered that the LSMR was not designed as a pleasure craft. In the calmest seas, it shook like a dog emerging from a bath; in hurricane weather, it performed better, sloughing wildly over the long sea swells...
World War II: As commander of Destroyer Squadron 23, the "Little Beavers," he fought 22 actions in the Pacific between Nov. 1, 1943 and Feb. 23, 1944. His command was credited with destroying one Jap cruiser, nine destroyers, one submarine, one auxiliary vessel, one cargo vessel, one minelayer, four barges and 30 enemy planes. Each time he got an order for movement, he gave the same reply: "Proceeding at 31 knots." Later, he became chief of staff to Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, planned and executed carrier attacks on Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Tokyo. Twice the flagship was hit, and twice...
Then, without warning, the gales came, and the little vessel scudded helpless before the wind to a point some 80 miles south of Penzance. With his course lost and his crew demoralized, Captain Peyrelongue made a suggestion. "Suppose," he said, "we break out a few bottles." Holding their glasses delicately, as connoisseurs should, between thumb and forefinger, the four voyagers sampled some Pomerol and found it good. Next morning they were fogbound...
...this cylindrical temple, another esoteric form presides, resembling a rocket-ship, headed heavenward. This vessel for outer space might be very effectively employed in not wafting gently, but forcefully propelling recalcitrant MIT students into the Empyrean...
Died. Joseph Pulitzer, 70, editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; of a ruptured abdominal blood vessel; in St. Louis (see PRESS...