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...Shells Come In. Staff Sergeant William E. Williams of Jasper, Fla., the tail gunner, winged the first German. Another Fortress crowded close to the stricken Pappy and swung its guns on the Germans. But Pappy was the wounded duck. The 1905 pressed home for the kill. Said Captain Williams...
...spinal cord and brain, flares up at irregular intervals, especially during wars. British cases soared from 1,500 in 1939 to a record 12,500 in 1940. In World War I the disease hit Army camps in the U.S., France and Britain. Relatively few (5,839) U.S. soldiers were stricken, but the disease gave Army doctors a disproportionate amount of trouble-as it is doing now. "Certain peculiarities of the disease-the apparent lack of interconnection between cases, the mysterious manner of spread .. . the ineffectiveness of control measures, and the terrifying effect on the morale of the post," were noted...
...Personnel are cautioned not to become panic-stricken by the great expanses of corridor (of which the Pentagon has 8 miles). Rumors concerning lost safaris in the Pentagon are hereby discounted, inasmuch as all but one of these safaris have been located and rescued. . . . Trained search parties will be on duty, and all corridor intersections will be patrolled at least once every two days...
...doctor was aboard when a sailor on a U.S. submarine was stricken with acute appendicitis somewhere in the South Pacific. But a member of the crew-the chief pharmacist's mate-had once witnessed an appendectomy. "It was operate or certain death," wrote Lieut. Franz Hoskins to his family in Tacoma (Wash.) last week, "for the patient's temperature was 106°." So, with the help of the ship's commander and two machinist's mates, Lieut. Hoskins administered the anesthetic and the pharmacist's mate bravely cut open the patient, located and removed...
Billy Lovett stopped minding his own business after one of his Suwanee Fruit & Steamship Co.'s three freighters (outmoded World War I destroyers which he converted into banana ships) happened upon the stricken La Paz, towed her toward shore. A mile and a half off Cocoa, Fla. she sank in the mud and Government engineers despaired of salvaging her. But Lovett, with a $500,000 salvage claim against her owner, decided to heed the call of "patriotism and profit." At the U.S. marshal's sale, he bought her (for $10,000), set out to float her again...