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...trail of phosphorescence bubbled whitely across the black sea off Guadalcanal. A New Zealand patrol boat, spotting the glow in the night, changed her course, ran down the telltale trail and dropped a pattern of depth bombs...
Japs began spilling out of the conning tower. The New Zealand gunners peppered them. The Jap commander toppled off the bridge. His men tried to shoot out the patrol boat's light, mortally wounded the seaman operating it. The two vessels crashed...
...harbor of Tripoli must be cleaned up so that it can be used as a supply base for the Eighth Army, of which Mr. Churchill said: "I have never seen troops march with the style and air of this desert army. Talk about spit & polish! The Highland and New Zealand divisions paraded after their ordeal in the desert as though they had come out of Wellington Barracks, and there was an air on the face of every private, a look of that just and sober pride which comes from victory after toil...
...Zealand to Harvard in twenty days on twenty dollars" was the spinechilling saga of William G. R. Marden '46, who made use of the United States Army, several trucks, an abandontd Buick, and a pretty blonde during his 12,000 mile trek across land...
...actual journey occurred last March, but Marden, the son and grandson of Harvard men, had long hoped and planned on a Harvard education. After receiving his degree from the University of New Zealand, he left his home with a pack on his back, the New Zealand equivalent of twenty dollars in his pocket, the blessings of his family and the jeers of his fellow students. Arriving at the port of Wellington, he was signed on by a U. S. troop transport on its way home from the Orient...