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...Commander Black took command of the Jacob Jones on April 14, 1941. Born in New Jersey, he entered the Naval Academy from that state in 1922 and was graduated in 1926, subsequently serving on various men of war both in the Atlantic and the Pacific...
...given his first command, a mine-sweeper, the Lark, which was in the mine force at Honolulu. He captained the vessel until 1938 when he was transferred to the Bureau of Navigation in Boston...
When the "China Incident" broke out, Yamashita fought in North China under the command of another Germanophile, General Count Juichi Terauchi. Count Terauchi, who has since visited Germany (see cut), was last week named Supreme Commander of the entire southwestern Pacific theater...
Whither Collaboration? German-Japanese collaboration will undoubtedly go far beyond anything Tomoyuki Yamashita himself can command. Eventually it may involve a synchronized German-Japanese squeeze on India. It may, sooner than that, involve a squeeze on Russia...
Furthermore, the common idea that the Nina and Pinta were open or half-decked boats is "preposterous." Nina, Columbus' favorite, was "one of the greatest little ships in the world's history." She drew only six feet of water, and sailed 25,000 miles under Columbus' command. Pinta was such a smart sailer that "Columbus became annoyed at a habit of Captain Pinzon in pressing on ahead when land was expected, in order to gain the reward." Morison guesses that she was about 75 feet long. Santa Maria was "somewhat" but "not very much" bigger than...