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...stated in the citation, Barnett "performed creditable service as a member of the Armed Guard crew of a merchant vessel during action against the enemy while acting as part of the invasion fleet at Salerno, 11 to 17 September, 1943. Because of the repeated attacks throughout the six day period, the Navy Gun Crew maintained a constant vigilance, executing their duties with cool efficiency despite the continues danger from falling bombs, shrapnel and withering blasts of enemy machine-gun fire. Their accurate shellfire shot down three hostile bombers...
...Pioneer. A 24-year-old Dalmatian sailor commanded the Partisans' only warship, the fishing smack Pioneer, whose eight men were armed with four rifles. The Dalmatian told of sighting an Italian coastal convoy one day-15 vessels, strung-out over 15 miles, with a minesweeper at each end of the column. The Pioneer attacked in the middle. The captain of the attacked boat, seeing rifles, surrendered. A Partisan went aboard, ordered the prize to head for a small section of the coast which was held by Partisans. The Pioneer went after the next vessel, applied the same treatment...
Lieut. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., slightly wounded at Palermo and returned to the U.S. from far-ranging destroyer duty, took command of a patrol vessel after making "a very creditable record" at a subchaser training school in Florida...
...Victory at the Norfolk Naval Operating Base, had been designed by Wilbur Herbert Burnham, a famed designer of church windows. But this one was different. It showed the Virgin Mary surrounded by tanks, antiaircraft guns, planes, blimps. Instead of the Infant Jesus, the Virgin was holding a destroyer-escort vessel...
With officers and men waiting, the Navy is now concentrating on production of these vessels with a high-powered incentive program of talks, movies, demonstrations in factories and shipyards. The $5 billion landing-vessel budget calls for a vast armada of more than 80,000 by year...