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...submarine prowled around a Jap-held island. From the bridge her commander watched Navy planes raiding enemy installations ashore. One of the planes was hit by flak. A parachute bloomed, and the pilot, Ensign Donald Brandt of Cincinnati, flumped into the water two miles offshore...
...round-bellied fighter plane that looks like two beer barrels, end to end. The U.S. Navy calls it the greatest sea fighter in the world. The Japs respect it above all other planes. Wherever the Hellcats have roved in the skies above the Pacific, they have conquered. At Guam, Ensign W. B. ("Spider") Webb nosed his Hellcat into a cluster of Jap dive bombers, joined them in their landing circle, leisurely shot down six. In the first attack on the Bonin Islands in June, Lieut. L. G. ("Barney") Barnard shot down two Jap planes in 25 seconds, sent three more...
Married. Gwladys Sheleagh Boake Carter, 19, daughter of Newscaster Boake Carter, whose scripts are under investigation by the FCC for anti-union bias; and Ensign James Wallace Jr., 21, Philadelphia socialite; in Germantown...
Lieut. John S. D. Eisenhower and Ensign Ernest J. King Jr., graduated from West Point and Annapolis, went straight into service as their fathers had before them: Invader Ike Eisenhower, West Point '15, and COMINCH Ernie King, Annapolis...
Last spring he fell sick, was put to bed in a naval hospital, got the best care of the best naval doctors. When he died, after weeks of treatment, Just Nuisance was wrapped in a white Naval Ensign and buried with naval honors. A detachment of Royal Marines fired a volley over his grave; his friends stood at attention. By the time his story reached the U.S. last week, a headstone had been erected. It read...