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Our Navy at Work (Volume 589); The Yankee Fleet in French Waters as Seen by Reginald Wright Kauffman

Reginald Wright Kauffman
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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918. ... CHAPTER II THE COLLEGE KIDS AND THEIR SHIPMATES IHAVE said that the personnel of the Suicide Fleet was composed of all sorts of men. That is true, but to a great extent it was composed of men, young men or men above the draft age, who might easily have had a higher rank in one branch or other of the service. They might, for instance, have waited and gone to the officers' training camps that were everywhere to open; instead, however, they enlisted as common seamen, and now they are so serving while hundreds of their friends are coming over with commissions in the Army. There is Vincent Astor, serving as ensign on what was once his own yacht. There is a lad from Tennessee, who, writing his first letter home and describing the ocean to his inland family, said that it was "just the same color as Barlowe's Creek, but wider." There is young Farwell, now, if you please, deservedly a lieutenant-commander, once sent home from Annapolis because his sight was too poor, and then giving up a newly-acquired law-practise in order to take war-service on a patrol-ship. I know a promising architect, a Beaux Arts graduate, whom I discovered repainting the water-worn side of the vessel on which he was a member of the Black Gang; and of a Harvard senior I have heard a veteran "See that stoop-shouldered fellow over there by the gun?--He can't be dragged more than twenty feet away from it. Well, he used to be the best mathematician in his college class. He wasn't aboard here a week before we saw that we'd never make a sailorman of him, not in a thousand years; but it took us less than the week to see that he did have in him the makings of a perfect pointer for the gun-crew. You know what it is to shoot at unknown range. Initial range, one, five, double O--fifteen hundred y...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Our Navy at Work (Volume 589); The Yankee Fleet in French Waters as Seen by Reginald Wright Kauffman. To get started finding Our Navy at Work (Volume 589); The Yankee Fleet in French Waters as Seen by Reginald Wright Kauffman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Our Navy at Work (Volume 589); The Yankee Fleet in French Waters as Seen by Reginald Wright Kauffman

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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918. ... CHAPTER II THE COLLEGE KIDS AND THEIR SHIPMATES IHAVE said that the personnel of the Suicide Fleet was composed of all sorts of men. That is true, but to a great extent it was composed of men, young men or men above the draft age, who might easily have had a higher rank in one branch or other of the service. They might, for instance, have waited and gone to the officers' training camps that were everywhere to open; instead, however, they enlisted as common seamen, and now they are so serving while hundreds of their friends are coming over with commissions in the Army. There is Vincent Astor, serving as ensign on what was once his own yacht. There is a lad from Tennessee, who, writing his first letter home and describing the ocean to his inland family, said that it was "just the same color as Barlowe's Creek, but wider." There is young Farwell, now, if you please, deservedly a lieutenant-commander, once sent home from Annapolis because his sight was too poor, and then giving up a newly-acquired law-practise in order to take war-service on a patrol-ship. I know a promising architect, a Beaux Arts graduate, whom I discovered repainting the water-worn side of the vessel on which he was a member of the Black Gang; and of a Harvard senior I have heard a veteran "See that stoop-shouldered fellow over there by the gun?--He can't be dragged more than twenty feet away from it. Well, he used to be the best mathematician in his college class. He wasn't aboard here a week before we saw that we'd never make a sailorman of him, not in a thousand years; but it took us less than the week to see that he did have in him the makings of a perfect pointer for the gun-crew. You know what it is to shoot at unknown range. Initial range, one, five, double O--fifteen hundred y...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Our Navy at Work (Volume 589); The Yankee Fleet in French Waters as Seen by Reginald Wright Kauffman. To get started finding Our Navy at Work (Volume 589); The Yankee Fleet in French Waters as Seen by Reginald Wright Kauffman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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