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...last vessel to leave Hawaii...
...Coast Guard radar station at Chatham, Mass. picked up a strange "target" - the halves of the ship seemed to be washing about in Chatham shoals 25 miles from where they were supposed to be. A low-flying search plane investigated, and read the name Pendleton on the broken vessel's bow. Only then did the Coast Guard realize that a second tanker-a sister ship of the Fort Mercer -had also split in two. The ship's radio was dead and the sections had been drifting for hours...
Over the weekend, two batteries of big guns--the American Council on Education and the Ivy League presidents--poured salvo after salvo into the battered and rotted hulk of once-proud college athletics. When the thunder had died away, a couple of crewmen of the punished vessel, Petty Officers Caldwell and Jordan, fired one final round against the foes of spring practice, and then struck their ensign...
Higbee's soundman lost the torpedo whine, but his probing sonar picked up a new contact: the metallic hull of a submerged vessel. Depth charges at the ready, the destroyer bore down on the contact. The captain ordered an uncoded message sent to CINCPAC at Pearl Harbor: "Attacked by submarine. Position: latitude 24° 36 min. north, longitude 121° 25 min. east. Am attacking submarine...
...officers in the Pentagon were not so sure. What about the oil and the continuing echoes from the hull? Quietly, a small group of World War II sub captains got out old charts and started poking into the files. Their search led them to the record of another U.S. vessel that had fought a battle in Formosa Strait...