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...carefully selected group of workers, children and bomb-shocked neurotics huddled wide-eyed in a dark, cold bomb vault. Noises began - sirens seeming to shriek for help, bombs and ack-ack conversing terribly...
...horrible dive bombin'. It wasn't a matter of lookin' up at the sky to see the Stukas, it was a matter of lookin' up at the Stukas to see a patch of sky. 'There's a bluenose [1,000-lb. bomb] comin' down two points off the starboard bow,' he says to the captain, like he was tellin' him there was a small school of flying fish ahead...
During a recent raid on the City of London a bomb shower fired the wooden desks and floor of St. Dunstan's schoolroom. Verger Thompson doused desks and floor with water, causing the bomb fragments to explode. Undaunted, Fireman Thompson stamped out the fragments...
...church's dome started burning. Elderly Fireman Thompson scrambled nimbly up an iron ladder to the dome, picked up a hot bomb, hurled it to the ground. Losing his balance, he tumbled down the dome, got wedged against a parapet. Freeing himself, he spotted another incendiary the vestry roof, walked atop a twelve-foot wall carrying a water bucket. The bomb responded to the water treatment by exploding and hurling Fireman Thompson to the concrete pavement below...
...like those of other industries) would have to be retrained before they could work on defense orders. But its efficient tool shop (which has developed and made the company's own precision machinery) could go to town on orders for small items such as cartridge cases, instrument parts, bomb & shell fuses. Already the company had filled some defense orders for gauges (as well as for fasteners on Army uniforms and sleeping bags...