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...Brad Craig (Richard Quine). He finds hazing a dreadful ordeal, but finally decides to stick it out. Brad is assigned by a chemistry professor to guard a secret formula; it is mysteriously stolen and he is bounced out on his ear. By way of Tokyo he eventually gets to Midway and wins the Congressional Medal of Honor for helping to destroy a Japanese aircraft carrier. Death finally comes to Brad in a spectacularly heroic manner-none too soon either...
...about the time it takes to stamp out a pile of ants," Number 8 of the Navy's torpedoplane squadrons was utterly smashed by ack-ack and Zeros at the Battle of Midway. "The squadron was like a raw egg thrown into an electric fan, and only three men came out of the action alive." Reformed, Torpedo 8 was flung straight into the Battle for the Solomons under the leadership of ardent, painstaking "Swede" Larsen. Armed with stubby Grumman Avengers, Torpedo 8 changed its old slogan from "Attack" to "Attack-and Vengeance...
...Navy escorted its transports to the beach and on whose blue waters lay "a great glitter of sunlight . . . making ships as difficult to spot as pins in a tray of diamonds." On Aug. 24, in the Second Battle for the Solomons, Torpedo 8 went out to revenge Midway...
...Answer. John Lewis' opening gun had been a plea: his miners were hungry. Midway in the battle he shifted tactics, demanded the raise on the basis of "portal-to-portal" pay, i.e., money for time spent going to & from work...
...german itself had not been very gay. Midway through the evening only 14 couples (their dress informal), several hound dogs circulated in the Jefferson-designed Rotunda...