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Once only, The Viper broke his vow. In Tokyo's great earthquake of 1923, he whimpered himself on to a U.S. warship anchored off Yokohama...
Disney's facilities are now 75% given over to wartime production. His schedule: 20 cartoons for the Navy on airplane and warship identification; eleven more for the U.S. Treasury; 52 for the State Department, promoting Allied and Hemisphere solidarity; twelve for the Rockefeller Committee and its Hemisphere good-will program; one for the Department of Agriculture, publicizing Lend-Lease aid to the Allies; a recruiting short for the U.S. Merchant Marine; three more bond-selling shorts, and an Army anti-tank-rifle training film for Canada; a series of U.S. Army training films similar to the Navy...
...destroyers withdrew. They returned, with U.S. cruisers. Shell and torpedo fire sank five more transports. A U.S. submarine torpedoed, probably sank a Jap aircraft carrier. U.S. bombers sank two transports, shot down five of twelve Jap fighters. Dutch bombers hit two Jap cruisers, five transports, a destroyer, a Jap warship which looked like a battleship. A Dutch submarine sank a Jap destroyer...
...British Navy bungling escape notice. It was revealed last week that the warship which took Winston Churchill to the U.S. was supposed to pick up a British destroyer escort near the Azores. The destroyers did not show up. Lest enemy agents inform Axis submarines of the warship's presence near the islands, the ship proceeded unescorted...
When this course is finished it is expected that you will know something about what a sailor does on a ship; how a big warship is operated; how an air task force is formed, and what it is expected to do; how the Army Commander spends his day; how your chow gets to you (or maybe why it doesn't sometimes); how German units work; the way you distinguish between truth, propaganda and pure, unadulterated BUNK...