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...dead in the water. For a few minutes she heeled far over to starboard. Then, at 12:45, on even keel, she disappeared, taking with her 500 of her dead and wounded crew. In the water that night, and later in prison camp, 227 more died. Of her whole complement, only 260 lived to tell the great tale...
...nominations may be made by submitting petitions with a minimum of 25 names on or before Thursday to George I. Bell '48 in Lowell House P-31. Chairman of the Nominations Committee, Bell Stated yesterday that these elections would bring the Council to within one short of its normal complement of 17; the departure at the end of this term of Clinton M. Ritchie '47, Council president, and Jerome I. Andrews NROTC, will, however, necessitate three more appointments next term...
Though replacements kept the Midway's complement only a hundred or two below her wartime strength of 3,425 (excluding aviators), this was no index to the crew's efficiency, for most of them had never been to sea before-there were even chief petty officers in this class...
...emery-paper landing surface on the steel deck. The 5-inch, .54-caliber guns had beginners' luck and brought down a good bag of towed sleeves and radio-controlled drone target planes. Eventually, all departments would function as smoothly. But it would take time and a stable complement...
...fortunately south and west of Pearl Harbor-were the U.S.'s only combat-fit carriers in the Pacific, the Lexington and the Enterprise, with a combined complement of only 180-odd planes. Like sitting ducks in Pearl Harbor were eight of the battleships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, in a condition of only partial readiness. This the Japs knew; they were well supplied with every detail of intelligence about their target...