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...sixty-nine were interested in serving as hospital orderlies. These men will work at Massachusetts General Hospital, where the need for general assistants is urgent as a result of war demands on younger personnel. The Auxillary Police attracted 211 for duty in Harvard's own unit, organized to patrol the University, which is an air raid district in itself...
...thought that U-boats off the U.S. East Coast had been worsted needed only to read a Navy announcement last week to know how serious the situation was: the Navy, which as late as a month ago pooh-poohed the idea of using small craft for anti-submarine patrol, made a public appeal to fishermen and yachtsmen for 1,000 such boats-in addition to 1,200 others which already have been quietly taken into service...
These small craft, mostly of wood or wood-and-steel construction, cannot successfully fight a submarine. (Already one such patrol craft, the converted fishing smack YP-389, has been sunk by submarine shellfire.) Few are big enough to carry depth charges or adequate guns. Few are fast enough to drop a depth charge and get away far enough to keep their own sterns from being blown off. Their only real use is to report U-boat movements by radio-if the Navy can supply them with radios-and to rescue survivors...
...Boat. While on reconnaissance patrol a few weeks before, they said, 200 miles off the coast of England, they were attacked by six German fighters. After shooting down two Germans, their plane, radio dead, was forced into the sea. They spent the next 16 days on a rubber life raft, stretching out five days' emergency rations by mixing canned milk and water together. Finally they saw a vessel, a U.S. ship which was part of a convoy. The boy with the empty pipe said he jerked a thumb at the boat's crew, asked ''Ride, buddy...
Midway. On the afternoon of June 3, Navy patrol planes sighted a Japanese fleet, in two forces, some 600 miles west of Midway: a striking force of four carriers, three battleships, many cruisers and destroyers; a supporting force of one carrier, several cruisers and destroyers, troop transportsקn all, about 30 Jap ships...