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...Ourd Zem (south of Casablanca) by train. From there to Beni Mallah by truck. A native escort brought it over the first of the hills on mules to district base. There a rider of the 'pony express' carried it to battalion base. A company convoy of mules and outriders carried it to company headquarters and it was forwarded here by the above mentioned manner. The poor thing must be quite shaken up, but is a godsend keeping me up on what goes on in the mother-land...
...Harry Gabriel Hamlet. He is 58, the big-boned, white-haired son of a New England revenue cutter captain. One of his first jobs with the Coast Guard was on the famed cutter Bear, rescuing distressed whaling ships in the Arctic. In the War he commanded the converted yacht convoy Marietta. Since 1928 Admiral Hamlet has been superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Conn. His new appointment fills the post left vacant by Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, who died last month of pneumonia, after overtaxing his strength by directing, from his bed, the Coast Guard...
...naval patrol flying boats, for your brother service has viewed with sincere appreciation the difficulties experienced by the Army pilots in flying out of sight of land to discover and bomb the Mt. Shasta. . . . The Naval Aviation Service will be glad either to guide and convoy the Army bombers to and from the target or, if necessary, even undertake the entire mission of finding and destroying by bombs the old hulk...
...from the Canal Zone came the cruiser Rochester. The transport Chaumont, due at Corinto in four days, raced at full speed with blankets, tents, medical supplies. The aircraft carrier Lexington raced out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, at 28 knots, outdistanced her destroyer convoy. Next day, 150 miles off the coast of Central America, she swung into the wind and a covey of fire planes roared off her flying deck. In a little more than four hours they landed in Managua with physicians, surgeons, loads of urgently needed anaesthetics. (By the previous midnight, four Navy surgeons had performed more than...
Only in the highest, most discreet councils of Peru's Navy was it known that the Army transports and their naval convoy were "just hanging around," perfectly willing to fight but waiting for a hunch...