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...Tokyo harbor last week that they spilled over their assigned space on the ship's deck. Dozens of the U.S. newsmen were looking for Joe Blow, the local boy who made good. Aboard one destroyer transport, the squawk box ordered all New York men to double to the fo'c'sle to meet the New York Times's representative. He turned out to be the Times's general manager himself, Brigadier General Julius Ochs Adler. Lesser reporters, many with the names of their papers lettered on their uniforms hunted down boys from their home towns...
Until the nations of the world understand each other better there are bound fo be times in the future when the rights and liberties of America will be questioned. ... So until the millennium is at hand our best insurance for peace is the national strength to maintain it. That means every man in our country should be ready to pick up a weapon...
...evening the new chum's uniform hung on him like a sack. He was run over by the crew of the foretop in a rush for hammocks and, when he staggered to the fo'c'sle with his own bursting hammock, was coldly asked by an officer if he was "carrying guts to a bear." After making up the hammock with non-regulation sheets as large as small sails, he fell out of it twice...
...Admiral Jonas H. Ingram, U.S. Atlantic Fleet commander: since 1941 the U.S. sub hunt had covered 30,000,000 square miles of ocean to fight a maximum German fleet of 450 submarines. The German attack peak was in 1942-43, but by spring of 1943 the defense had its fo'c'sle head above water. By V-E day the U.S. had 126 sure submarine kills and had escorted 16,760 ships across the Atlantic...
...commissioners found the old state-issued textbooks crammed with Fascist fee-fo...