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...Panama Canal. The Navy last week permitted pictures to be printed of a fleet of 77-foot shallow-draft mosquito boats maneuvering off the Canal, slamming over the water at So m.p.h., armed with 50-caliber anti-aircraft guns and bearing in their powerful little bodies a pack of torpedoes. No submarine cares to surface in an area where the little motor torpedo boats operate on the alert, because a PT can run down any craft afloat, and is 100% effective at the close ranges in which it operates...
...they had earned their pay-$600 a month plus a $500 bonus for every Jap shot down. In Kunming they could spend it easily-for cigarets at $2.80 a pack, for Scotch at $45 a bottle, for cheese at $12 a pound, for tooth paste at $4 a tube. In Burma there was nothing to spend it for, except cables to the folks at home. For that they spent...
...murky morning last week a British patrol surprised a pack of German E-boats in the English Channel. The swift little E-boats ran for safety: from the guns of the careening British, shells pursued them. Two E-boats were blown to bits. It was the start of a running fight which the British fought with E-boats for two days...
After dark on the day of the Channel skirmish, the Germans sent another pack of speedsters against a British convoy in the North Sea. Again British destroyers blew two E-boats to flotsam, but this time the Germans fought back, spitting torpedoes. One torpedo punched the frail hull of the Vortigern, a 1,090-ton oldtimer, and she went down. The British patrol sloop Guillemot, a 580-tonner which can do little better than 20 knots, spotted an E-boat lying in ambush, crept up within 50 yards before the German crew woke up. The Guillemot sent...
...Remarkable Andrew (Paramount) is a refreshing fantasy. It brings back a posse of Founding Fathers and other once-vigorous Americans to mop up a pack of dishonest, flag-waving, 20th-century politicians...