Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zacharias, as he left her for Washington after five combat actions to become Assistant Chief of Naval Intelligence, the crew of the Salt Lake City had a handsome testimonial. Their scroll recalled old Swayback's great fighting career, the raid on the Marshalls, the attack on Jap-held Wake, the days & nights at "general quarters" when the enemy was hammering at them with bomb and torpedo. "We say farewell to you with a deep sense of personal loss," it concluded...
Donald picked himself up and went over to where Madame lay, crumpled and unconscious, her blue slacks and shirt defiled in a mud puddle. "Come on, wake up," he shouted gruffly, then sang: "She flew through the air with the greatest of ease, the daring young woman. . . ." She stirred, moaned. Donald lifted her to her feet. He walked her to a farmhouse, made her change, put her back in the car, asked her what she wanted to do. "We'll go on to Shanghai," she said...
...interest of greater realism, Producer Lester Cowan and Director John Farrow (who directed Wake Island) filmed the entire picture on the rugged crags of Vancouver Island. For the Commando sequences they had as actors actual Commandos-in-training of the Canadian Army, and among their technical advisers was Major General A. E. Potts, who organized the first actual Commando raid in Norway. But as a picture of war, Director Farrow's Commando lacks the force of his Wake Island...
...Libreville. At the town's only hotel, he stares at the grinning masks on the walls, cranks up a phonograph with a big, old-fashioned horn, drinks his first "peg" of whiskey and feels like a young rakehell. The feeling increases when Proprietress Adèle comes to wake him, wearing her usual black silk dress and no underclothing. Mutual captivation follows instantly...
Fortresses haunted the convoy until after dark, when an Australian-manned Navy Catalina picked up the convoy's phosphorescent wake. Three bombs from the Catalina blew up a big (14,000-ton) transport which probably carried...