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...Berlin taps were sounded for another U-boat master, Lieut. Commander Rolf Muetzelburg, bearer of the oak leaves on the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The fifth of Germany's top sub men killed in action, Muetzelburg had evidently been trapped on the conning tower when his U-boat crash-dived...
...body was not that of Charles Herbert Koch, but of Curtis Herman Koch of Oak Park, Ill. They had been in training at Great Lakes Naval Station at the same time. Curtis Herman was killed when the tanker on which he was a gunner was torpedoed off the Atlantic Coast...
Sergeant Jim Faulkner of Red Oak, Tex. got shot through the hand...
Home to the war went oak-hearted Winston Churchill, his dark blue Trinity House uniform damp with the spindrift of the high sea, his yachtsman's cap askew. Home to a nation which still believed it could avoid the war went broad-shouldered Franklin Roosevelt, faultlessly pressed, confident, characteristically hopeful of the world's destiny. They had kindled-so they hoped and perhaps believed-a fire that would be a light...
...Navy's curt message said only that Nason Billings had died at sea, on one of those seagoing tugs that defy subs and storms to do rescue and salvage work. In a weather-beaten old house in a little Maine fishing village last week an oak-hearted old man sat down and scribbled a stout reply...