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...Daily Variety announced that the invasion of North Africa was "invaluably aided" by all the pre-war North African footage of the studios. The Reporter bannered the real credits: FILMS HEART OF FIGHTING FORCES. It backed up this cock-a-doodle-doo with a two-column deck...
...shattered and depleted convey nosed into Kola Bay, down to the Tulema River, and Murmansk. Crewmen on Haskell's ship, who were lounging around the mess galley while awaiting their boat's turn to be unblessed, were suddenly shaken by a terrific explosion. Rushing on deck to man the guns against air attack, they found that the explosion, which struck about number four batchway, was not a bomb but a floating mine...
...your account of the sinking of the Wasp (TIME, Nov. 2) you report that one of our returning pilots said, "I thought I saw a crowd of men standing on the after part of the flight deck, but they may have been wounded left there or dead...
...sake of the families of Wasp men reported missing, please allow me to say no wounded were left. Captain Sherman was the last man to leave the flight deck and shortly thereafter he came to the fantail of the ship where some of us remained. We were then evacuating the last of the wounded from the hangar deck areas. None of us will ever forget the courageous and unselfish conduct of our shipmates in caring for the wounded, both on the ship and in the water. The quotation is misleading. When the last of us left the ship, the wounded...
...best, a transport is a cattle boat and the discomfort is sickening, especially when it is blistering hot for days at a time. Water is strictly rationed, and the troops must stand up to eat or sit on the deck any place there is room...