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Where away, a modern odyssey

ILLUSTRATIONS Rear Admiral (then Captain) Arthur G. Robinson. Frontispiece Commander (now Captain) Nicholas B. Van Bergen. between 14 and 15 Lt. Commander Martin }. Drury. 15 Chief Bos'n Harvey Andersen. 15 Hawkins and the Deacon. 15 Moran and Percifield. 30 Forward view of the U.S.S. Marblehead. 31 Illustration. 46 Captain Robinson on the bridge. 62 Clarence "Bull" Aschenbrenner. 94 Illustration. between 118 and 119 Joe DeLude. 135 Death, pain, and fire. 135 The wounded. 135 Lacking tannic acid, gunners smear gun grease on the burned. 135 Johnson reaches into the sloshing muck to grapple for the drainage plugs. 142 Martines carrying powder. Pipe bunks being torn out for use as stretchers. 143 Illustrations Below decks, men are ceaselessly bailing water. 159 The "Bull" works aft. The quiet indomitability, the uncrushable peasant stubbornness of spirit of Fook Liang. 1 59 Jarvis and his gang do some emergency electrical rigging. 174 Native dock workers at Tjilatjap. 182 Commander Goggins, with gifts, is carried ashore. 183 U.S.S. Marblehead in drydock at Simonstown, South Africa. between 222 and 223 Hello, Mom. This is Eddie. 230 Digitized by Google. · At head of title: George Sessi

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