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...through the first half, while Burditt fidgeted nervously with the mask that he wore to protect a broken nose, the Crimson offense functioned in low gear as the team concentrated on harrassing the Princeton sharpshooters, Bill Vogt and Jack Palmer...
This week it looked as if Washington would give the escort program a real green light. It was too late to stew over past mistakes. The real challenge was to business-for on the success or failure of gear maker and instrument maker may rest the outcome of the Battle of the Atlantic...
Below, the cabin had suddenly become a welter of men, clothes, dishes, gear. Water pouring down her hatch had hurled the skipper bodily out of the chartroom and into the galley. Around the cabin, like dice in a box, skittered 50-lb. chunks of lead ballast. A potbellied stove, torn from its moorings, crushed the ribs of Seaman James T. Watson. There were five other men below. They tried to lash things down and ladle the water out. The men on deck tried to clear the wreckage of the mizzenmast. The 3070 lurched wildly...
...located her off the tip of Cape Cod. The seas were running too high to take anyone off, but the Britisher took her in tow and headed for Halifax. But the adventures of the 3070 had only begun. Seaman Toivo Koskinen was on deck trying to rig a chafing gear when a wave swept him overboard. Another wave picked him up and swept him back. This time a shipmate grabbed him. In the blackness of night the towline snapped; the destroyer was lost to sight. The 3070 wallowed on, lost and helpless...
While Allied fortunes in North Africa were in suspense, the European air offensive rattled on in high gear. From The Netherlands to the Mediterranean, Allied planes pounded at Hitler's continental fortress...