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...second in command, Nelson chose craggy, red-faced Engineer William Batt Sr., former president of big S.K.F. Industries (ball bearings). Able, levelheaded Bill Batt has worked with Nelson since NDAC, was one of the first men to recognize that Washington's defense sights were too low, one of the first to warn of approaching bottlenecks in aluminum and steel...
...swirling through a chattering dogfight. Between times an Allied force of 57 bombers and fighters swung into Indo-China, lashed fiercely at a big Jap airdrome at Hanoï. It was the heaviest blow struck in the area delegated to Chiang Kai-shek by the Allied Supreme Command (Thailand and Indo-China). The raiders reported they smashed up 21 aircraft on the ground, fired gasoline stores, burned down hangars. This successful attack from the air may have been a hint of the shape of things to come for the Jap. But the things would have to come fast...
...Nazi Party solely because of his conviction that the upstart Brown Shirts would break down Versailles restrictions against recreation of his fleet. He gained powerful supporters in the German Inner Circle: Admiral Otto Schniewind, former director of naval education, now Chief of Staff of the German Navy High Command, is his close friend. The Luftwaffe's Hermann Göring supports Doenitz' frequent demands for materials and money, though he is often said to oppose similar demands from Admiral Raeder. Gossip is that the porcine Marshal likes Doenitz because of quick-witted sympathy expressed one day when Herr...
...official reports on currents around the Portland naval base, he boarded U-37 and went to see for himself. The destroyer Wolfhound spotted the strange sub, dropped a couple of practice detonators, scared the German visitor to the surface. While Doenitz fumed in the torpedo room, the U-boat commander made proper apologies. Then the U-boat went home. Doenitz reportedly confided to a fellow officer that, on hearing the depth charges, he thought the "raving idiot in Berlin" had started shooting without notifying his Naval High Command...
...While there is no guarantee that students who have taken this course will obtain immediate employment," the announcement said, "it can be said that the number of native Americans who possess such a command of Russian as this course will give is sufficiently small to place in an exceptionally favorable position those who have successfully completed...