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...Operations (A-3), most important section of the staff war-wise, is bossed by another West Pointer, sleek-haired youngish Brigadier General Earl Naiden, 48, whose fellows account him one of the most knowledgeable officers of the service in tactics and strategy...
...Supply (A4) is bossed by Colonel Thomas J. Hanley, a West Pointer who understands the wondrously complicated administration of air supply...
...members of a 5-inch gun's crew fell before a strafing attack. The lone remaining bluejacket took over: three times he grabbed a shell from the fuse pot, placed it in the tray, dashed to the other side of the gun, rammed it home, jumped into the pointer's seat and fired. A terrific bomb blast finally carried him over the side. He was rescued...
Pilot Kelly probably never returned to his base. A 26-year-old West-Pointer, he was the first Army officer to fly the Boeing Flying Fortress in the Far East. He possibly flew one to his death in the attack on the Haruna. His wife, in Brooklyn with her parents, took the news dry-eyed. She told reporters: "Please, when you write, write only of what Captain Kelly has done, not of me, not of Corkey [their 18-month-old son]. For it is Captain Kelly who deserves all the praise, all the glory." Praise and glory aside. Captain Kelly...
...series of alternating songfests and bursts of earthy, or rather marine humor are strung together by a plot involving the fleet gunnery prize, an expert gun-pointer whose hitch expires just before target practice begins, and the girl who persuades him to re enlist. Jack Oakie, who has staked his petty officer's savings and his ship's trophies on the outcome, exercises more ingenuity and resourcefulness than his script-writers. Martha Raye opens her mouth wide, and makes faces, Ann Sheridan is also in the cast...