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Neither Pearl Harbor nor the grey dawn of Tax Day (see p. 15) had cast a shadow on the sale of women's hats. This year, as in 1941, girls in school, girls in factories, wives of workers and fighters, will deck their waves with some 130,000,000 bonnets...
...basis of an examination given by the Navy at the end of the third college term, a certain proportion of these college V-1 students will be chosen for officer training programs under the air-corps (V-5) and deck and engineering (V-7) plans. Examination failure means transfer to active duty under a special Navy rating...
Anti-aircraft fire got some of the Japs. One was knocked down, according to the Navy, less than 100 yards from the carrier, as he tried to crash the flying deck. Through their own heavy anti-aircraft fire, U.S. Navy fighters whipped after the Jap. Continued McCarthy...
...John Forsdal was lookout on the R. P. Resor, northbound off the Jersey coast. Seeing running lights inshore of the tanker and less than a quarter mile away, the lookout thought it was a fishing boat-but two torpedoes proved it was not. Sailor Forsdal was slammed to the deck and knocked out for a moment, but recovered and went to the windward side of the ship, realizing that the wind would blow the fire the other...
West of the U.S. naval base at St. John's, Newfoundland, a long spit of land juts southwest toward the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Lieut. Commander Ralph Hickox, skipper of the elderly flush-deck destroyer Truxtun, knew he was somewhere near the end of the spit, but he could not see. The wind was blowing more than 60 miles an hour and low-flying scud dropped the visibility toward zero. The Truxtun ran aground. So did the naval supply ship Pollux. The waves, pounding in like sledgehammers to the base of a 200-ft. cliff, began...