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...mission" of a sort that has been carried out for years by U.S. ships and planes patrolling the long coastline of the Russian heartland. The Navy bomber shot down over the Baltic in the spring of 1950 was on a ferret mission. So was the Air Force C-130 transport that was lured by false radio beams into Soviet Armenia and shot down in September 1958. (Of the 17 men on board, the Russians eventually returned six bodies; they still insist that they have no knowledge of the remaining eleven.) During the past ten years, at least 75 Americans have...
...convivial glasses of red Portuguese wine, raisins and crackers. Chatting happily with newsmen, he answered overseas phone calls and fired off stirring communiqués informing the U.S. and Britain that the capture of the Santa Maria "does not represent mutiny or piracy but only the seizure of Portuguese transport by Portuguese to fulfill Portuguese political objectives." The act, he cried, "will contribute greatly to the liberation of Portugal" and prepare the way for setting up a "provisional government...
...Creed. For a long while, none of this bothered Gann unduly. Even the inevitable accidents flying with the Air Transport Command all over the world were taken as part of the job. He developed a veteran's pride as he passed the word to the swaggering newcomers who joined him on the job, the pistol-packing service pilots who had been rushed through Army flight schools. "These were the brave aerial children who would soon go down in flame and history as the Eighth Air Force. Later, when we brought them back, the accoutrements were gone. They wore medals...
...Charlie Stark, and the two men could hardly be more different. Charlie's family is sound, conventional, well to do. He has been turned down for combat duty and has in turn rejected his chance at a commission; instead, he was drafted for service on a troop transport. On the Pendleton, Raditzer spots him at once as a decent man who is above abuse, a man to tie to for protection. Raditzer glories in his whining autobiography-born illegitimate, raised in an orphanage, never knew a decent woman, never had a chance. He ducks his sea duty and Charlie...
...home at war's end that Raditzer gets his comeuppance. He brags about combat duty that he never saw, swaggers through the transport with a fat roll that he has picked up running a joint in Hawaii. But this time the Pendleton is carrying combat veterans as well as the scraped-barrel group of the outward voyage. When Raditzer is caught cheating in a below-decks poker game, they decide to pitch him overboard. In a scene that is brutal and powerfully true, Charlie Stark as his protector is tried as Raditzer has not tried him before. And from...