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General Sir Harold Alexander entered the wardroom at headquarters for his first press conference since the beginning of the Italian campaign. Three dozen correspondents jumped to their feet. The commander of Allied ground forces in Italy promptly waved them down, seated himself on a desk corner...
...that the next parade will be at 6 a.m. the following morning, at a place 100 miles away. How he gets there is his own business. He must be his own cook. Muttered the horrified captain of a Commando-carrying gunboat: "There are 50 soldiers frying bacon in my wardroom...
Groaned Rector: "Let's get going." In the wardroom, about the size of a Pullman drawing room, Rector stretched out on the table beneath a floodlight ordinarily used for loading. The pharmacist's mate and assisting officers pulled on reversed pajama tops, masked their faces with gauze. From end to end the submarine, riding deep under the surface, was tense. Men stood by the diving planes to keep her steady. In the galley the cook kept water boiling in his kettles for sterilizing...
Ether fumes eddied through the crowded wardroom. The patient grimaced. "More ether," said Lipes. Two hours and a half after the operation started, Lipes took the last catgut stitch. At that moment the ether gave...
Lieutenant Commander William J. ("Gus") Widhelm, U.S.N., was the skipper of Scouting Eight (dive-bombers) and the bigheart of the Hornet. Gus always kept five dollars in nickels so he could buy everybody cokes in the wardroom after evening general quarters. He could play badminton on the hangar deck better than anyone else. He had better luck at Bingo in the ready room than anyone else. There was always a wisecrack on his tongue, but he was a flyer's flyer. George Stokely, his radio man and gunner, called him "the crazy flying...