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Volume 9 - No. 222 - December 21, 1945

Now It Can Be Told! - Nail Gun Speeds Underwater Salvage

Dec1945

Now It Can Be Told! - Nail Gun Speeds Underwater Salvage

Holed below the water-line, a wreck must be patched before it can be salvaged. How to fix the patch most expeditiously over that yawning hole? Engineering ingenuity indicated how this task could be ac

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Now It Can Be Told! - How 'Hangman' Heydrich Met His End

Dec1945

Now It Can Be Told! - How 'Hangman' Heydrich Met His End

Czech parachutists, flown from Britain, killed Reinhard Heydrich, notorious Nazi “hangman”, it was learned on November 1, 1945, when the full story of the assassination of the Gauleiter of Bohemia and

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Now It Can Be Told! - Naval Divers Cut Jap Telephone Cables

Dec1945

Now It Can Be Told! - Naval Divers Cut Jap Telephone Cables

Working with oxygen apparatus in depths which had shortly before caused the deaths of two other divers, two British naval divers cut the Saigon-Singapore and the Saigon-Hongkong undersea telephone cab

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