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The problem is vast, tough, dirty, dangerous and infinitely complicated. Diving work of a magnitude never before undertaken will be required. A school must be set up on Pier 88 to train scores of divers and hundreds of other salvage workers before the job can even be started. When salvage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - NAVY: Not Junk | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

> Two ships were sunk off the coast of the Carolinas with eleven lives lost. One of them listened helplessly for half an hour to the engines of the approaching submarine, watched it fire two torpedoes in full view of the crew. A rescued seaman from the second ship had to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Catalina to the Rescue | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

Four torpedo planes came first. Heavy fire and Italian caution kept the planes well away, too high and too far for good aiming. Then came bombers, some high and some diving on the five light cruisers, the destroyers and the supply ships in the British convoy. Unscathed, the convoy pushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tea at Sea | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

They had. The legend among oldtime U.S. pilots that Chinese make poor flyers took another body blow. Luke Field's Oriental fledglings had blown a few tires, scraped a few wing tips. But they had had no serious crackups, had been smooth and unhurried in the air. Also they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Same Skies, Same Hopes | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

The National Collegiate A.A. swimming championship was won by Yale in a two-day meet last week in the Harvard pool. The Elis capsized in their wake 28 other colleges, scoring 71 points to their closest competitor's (Michigan) 39. Yale's swimming stars this season are Captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Natatutorees | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

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