The Wilmington Morning Star

side and picked him up within 15 minutes. Crews leaped to their heavy anti-aircraft guns and shells began going up toward a silvery speck in the late afternoon sky. Admiral Calvin T. Durgin's navigator, Lt. Richard Joshua Reynolds, millionaire racing yachtsman, appeared with a sextant. After taking an observation he reported the gunners were shooting at Venus. Here's a sample of what is modestly called evasive action: This group of escort carriers made 33 sharp changes in course within less than an hour while under an air attack. As the whole vast formation, stretching to the horizon, zig-zagged to avoid enemy planes, individual ships in the formation dashed this way and that in a carefully planned confusion.