And the thing about a shark is hes got lifeless eyes. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin and hollerin and sometimes that shark he go away but sometimes he wouldnt go away. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. They didnt even list us overdue for a week. What we didnt know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin from the dorsal to the tail. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.ĭidnt see the first shark for about a half-hour. We was comin back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. "Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. Vice President John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner showing off Jesse James' pistols to then Senator Harry Truman, 1938.Ĭrew of the French Battlecruiser Dunkerque in 1938. Headline reporting the panic induced by the radio play broadcast adaptation of War Of The Worlds. Tea Break during a Cricket Test Match, England, though I suppose that goes without saying, 1938.Ī sailor and his girl kiss on the H.M.S Nelson Battleship in 1938.
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