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While Blake was busy instructing beginners in the rowing machines, the cry of "man overboard" or "submarine off the port bow" rang out from the dock as the less fortunate hooted at those who had been lucky enough to get into a wherry...
...finish Passamaquoddy after all. They had all heard that the plane had made the dreadnought an anachronism, that the carrier was king, that the U.S. had already abandoned or postponed five projected 58,000-ton super-super-battleships. Would the Iowa spend the war ignominiously tied to a dock? Almost certainly...
...Grew was the first off the boat. Dressed in a grey flannel suit, he stepped gingerly down the gangplank, looked about him at the cluttered, smoky, indubitably American landscape of Jersey City. Then he clambered into a black Buick sedan, which took him across the dock where the reporters and newsreel men were waiting. As he grinned, deep lines showed in his face. But he was happy. Nervously fingering his glasses, he stepped up to the newsreel microphone...
...enlisted men and noncommissioned officers until they are graduated. Dates with officers must wait until they are officers themselves. But no WAAC has yet been disciplined for conduct unbecoming an officer candidate. No recalcitrant WAAC will be sent to the guardhouse. Svelte, smart, serene Oveta Hobby, the director, suggests: "Dock'em." Colonel Faith's idea: "Curtail their privileges...
...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 10,000-ton cruisers. The British said recovery was impossible. But 50-year-old Captain Ellsberg put on a diving suit and took a look. The dock, he discovered, had eight watertight compartments, into each of which the Italians had dropped a 200-lb. bomb. Undiscouraged, Ellsberg went to work with meager...