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...volunteers, 18 Jewish refugees-and a stink which immediately wafted through the Manhattan press. While most of them went quietly on their way, a handful of the returning warriors growled that they had been shamefully treated: they were fed "slops" from a rolling army field kitchen on the main deck, had to sleep in the ship's suffocating hold...
...united in a common dislike for a brown-skinned, fabulous figure who appeared on deck in a navy blue uniform, well loaded with gold braid and perfume: Harlem's Hubert Fauntleroy ("Black Eagle") Julian, who had previously distinguished himself by crashing the Emperor of Ethiopia's airplane. His critics on the Mathilda Thordén averred that Pilot Julian 1) had arrived in Finland 13 days after the war ended; 2) even if he was a commissioned captain (as he had Finnish papers to prove), he had no right to wear a Finnish military attache's uniform...
...light cruisers, eight destroyers, several submarines. At the same time, the officers of some 200 minesweepers, sub-chasers and other small craft were notified that they were in custody. To reach the submarine Surcouf, world's biggest (2,880 tons), the boarding party had to cross the deck of a larger French ship. The Surcouf's watch heard, gave an alarm, started a lead-spitting scuffle. A French officer and a British seaman were killed...
...early Mass conducted by the Rev. Henry D. Naber of Cincinnati when suddenly all the ship's sirens and alarms cut loose. As the consecration had just been reached, every Catholic remained kneeling until its conclusion. Then they joined other Washington passengers rushing in night clothes to the deck. From his cabin to the bridge hurried the Washington's worried captain, Harry Manning...
...confession, ships so far along in construction cannot be altered to benefit in full from the antiaircraft lessons taught by World War II. Washington VI nonetheless is far ahead of Washington V: longer (125 ft.); 16-inch armor (instead of tapering from 16 to 14 inches); two layers of deck armor, instead of a single, three-inch layer (the upper one six inches thick, the lower four inches); faster (rated at 28 knots, expected to better that; the last Washington was rated at 21 knots). Probable cost: a whopping...