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Page 101
... skipper H. A. Schmidt spotted Hizen and recognizing it for a foreign warship , hugged the coast of Oahu inside the three - mile limit . No doubt still savoring Aeolus ' blood , two fast launches with Hizen close astern tally - ho'd ...
... skipper H. A. Schmidt spotted Hizen and recognizing it for a foreign warship , hugged the coast of Oahu inside the three - mile limit . No doubt still savoring Aeolus ' blood , two fast launches with Hizen close astern tally - ho'd ...
Page 104
... skipper's wants . Bulwarks bristled with two elderly Colt machine guns and a one- pounder cannon scrounged from the Monterey . Into the hold went ten tons of pig iron ballast to take the place of the trade goods out , copra in , that ...
... skipper's wants . Bulwarks bristled with two elderly Colt machine guns and a one- pounder cannon scrounged from the Monterey . Into the hold went ten tons of pig iron ballast to take the place of the trade goods out , copra in , that ...
Page 286
... skipper at Yorktown must have thought I was ' Asiatic , ' " Picking wrote me in 1972 , " but he arranged it , and I was ordered to the USS Preble as mining officer with promotion to ensign . We made most of the major invasions ...
... skipper at Yorktown must have thought I was ' Asiatic , ' " Picking wrote me in 1972 , " but he arranged it , and I was ordered to the USS Preble as mining officer with promotion to ensign . We made most of the major invasions ...
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