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That evening, in the clear California night, 70,000 people crushed into the Los Angeles Coliseum, watched a Flag Day parachute bomb shoot up, heard The Star-Spangled Banner, watched the flag raised, chanted the pledge of allegiance to the flag, bowed heads in prayer, roared approval as grizzled G. O. P. Oldtimer Joseph Scott introduced "the next President of the United States...
London had some new heroes last week: delayed-bomb-extraction squads. Londoners called them "fang pullers." The city buzzed with stories of these daring men who dug deep into the ground, lifted out the still-live explosives, and carried them off to destroy them in open places. One, looking down into a hole before climbing in, saw burst gas mains and cut electric cables and said: "I don't mind being gassed, I don't mind being blown up. But I don't bloody well like being electrocuted -are those wires SAFE?" Another sapper, sitting astride...
...active combat, no military ends, no instinct to destroy the enemy urged them as they grubbed 27 feet into the wet, sandy soil. They were in constant expectation of a blinding, icy flash of death. As they dug, a gas main caught fire and began to broil the bomb. Twice on the way up the bomb slipped its tackles and fell to the bottom of the hole...
Finally the crew got the bomb out and loaded it on a truck. Lieut. Davies took the wheel and drove his hot burden seven miles to Hackney Marsh and blew it up. Robert Davies is a cool number. Of his hair-raising truck drive he commented: "The biggest thrill was that I had speed cops escorting me and the road was mine...
...Zuckerman described one case of a man injured in a recent air raid. A medium-calibre bomb fell through the roof and exploded in the same room with him. His only external injury was deep laceration of the thigh, but he died in twelve hours. Autopsy disclosed numerous hemorrhages of the lungs...