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"Very interesting, those fishing sampans," a destroyer commander observed more than a year ago. "The men in them are alert and smart and you don't see fish scales on their nets. Their boats are immaculate-brightwork polished and everything shining. Navy, if I ever saw it."
The Japanese attacks were sufficiently audacious and ruthless. One submarine donned a false superstructure, disguising itself as a fishing vessel. Others surfaced so close to shore that their attacks were clearly visible to watchers on land.
In Portland they were talking about the Mauna Ala, which grounded while groping for the mouth of the Columbia River in a blackout, and the 60,000 Christmas trees which washed ashore while the freighter broke up. In San Francisco they were talking about flares dropped from an enemy plane...
In the first days of the Pacific War the Canadian west coast was as jittery as California (see p. 11). Police rounded up "a fair number" of the 24,000 Japanese on the coast, while Naval authorities decommissioned 1,000 Japanese fishing boats by removing their carburetors. Vancouver had three...
Greatest living sculptor, by common consent of the artistic world, is grey-bearded Aristide Maillol, who next week celebrates his 80th birthday in the little fishing village of Banyuls, in southern France. In spite of war, little Banyuls will give this spry oldster his usual birthday party. In Manhattan, his...