軍武

我继续阅读1950年代及1960年代的英文报纸。

Friday, 15 May 1953:

空母USS Valley Forge的狗星人船員。

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/276551698/

CODDY, a tiny Japanese addition to the crew of the carrier USS Valley Forge, sits for his identification picture after being 'enlisted' off the Korean coast.
(AP Wirephoto).

Navy Signs Stowaway
(Hardly a Dog's Life)

1953/05/15

Tokyo Wl - A fuzzy little puppy with a waggly tail stowed away on the U.S. Navy's famed aircraft carrier Valley Forge one rainy night at Yokosuka and came through his adventure with the prizes and privileges of an old sea dog.
The Navy told the pup's tale yesterday: somehow the little pooch evaded the officer of the deck and the gang way watch and shivered for hours in a dark corner of the hangar deck.
A sympathetic bluejacket whisked him below.
After stowing away a ration of warm milk, the pup fell asleep.
His troubles began the next day not long after the bugler had roused the flattop's 3,000-man-and-a-dog crew, the ship put out for sea, bound for Korea and the fighting.
The puppy, of Oriental but otherwise undetermined origin, presented a problem, all right.
Quarantine regulations prohibit the transportation of pets picked up in a foreign port.
While the executive officer pondered, the bluejackets went to work.
They "enlisted" the pup in naval service, dressed him in a trim, zip-front blue jumper topped with Korean and UN campaign ribbons, photographed him and provided an identification card with the name "Coddy".
Coddy cut a fine figure of a sailor but his tour aboard the carrier was short-lived.
The dog-gone exec found a sailor who was flying to Japan on emergency leave.
So typewritten orders were cut for Coddy.
The sailor and pup boarded a plane and roared down the flight deck.
Coddy made history.
He was the first dog to wing off the Valley Forge.
The future looks rosy for Coddy, the combat veteran.