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The U.S. naval officer was modest, soft-spoken Captain Edward Ellsberg, salvager of the submarine S-51 off Block Island in 1926. Ellsberg had arrived in Massaua in March. Principal item of wreckage in the harbor which Allied officials were anxious to recover was a floating dock capable of handling...
Some people found it bad enough to be frightening. In New York City a committee called Citizens For Victory (most prominent officers: Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, Fiscal Expert Harry Scherman, Editor Walter Millis) wrote an advertisement this week under the glaring banner: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH...
The most important things learned were about the nature of the U-boats which the U.S. is now fighting. Examination of a captured submarine showed that its sturdy construction enabled it to submerge to nearly 600 feet, twice the usual operational limit of depth charges. A newly improved motor has...
At its Washington College, the Red Cross trains men & women for overseas service with task forces. Its students include lawyers, teachers, brokers, the father of a pilot who died diving his plane into a Japanese transport. They get instruction for all sorts of odd jobs which the Red Cross now...
> Swimming Coach Frederick Richard ("Freddie") Lanoue of Georgia Tech got to thinking about the men who must jump from torpedoed ships into burning oil. He remembered an experience he once had when diving into a tank of water through a ring of burning gasoline. The gas had escaped from the...