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Landlubbers may wonder what a battleship band does when it is not tootling and drumming. The Navy told them last week. The 21 men in the band of the Arizona, sunk at Pearl Harbor, went down with the ship. They died at their battle stations in one of the most dangerous spots on a warship-passing ammunition in the clangorous bowels of the turrets.
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